Famous Proverbs

1] What’s done is done

2] A little help is worth a deal of pity

3] He that can stay. Obtains

4] Have two strings to your bow

5] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

6] Slow and steady wins the race

7] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

8] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

9] What is a workman without his tools?

10] Words are but wind

11] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

12] The best fish swim near the bottom

13] Men are blind in their own cause

14] The rich knows not who is his friend

15] Half a loaf is better than do bread

16] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

17] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

18] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

19] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

20] A living dog is better than a dead lion

21] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

22] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

23] Homo is a common name to all men.

24] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

25] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

26] A jack of all traders is master of none

27] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

28] How forceful are right words

29] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

30] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

31] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

32] Extremes are dangerous

33] Health is not value till sickness comes

34] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

35] The mean is the best

36] Poverty is the mother of crime

37] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

38] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

39] Extremes are dangerous

40] The age of miracles is past

41] There’s a black sheep in every flock

42] Good fences make good neighbours

43] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

44] Busiest men find the most time

45] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

46] Praises fill not the belly

47] A black hen lays a white egg

48] Nothing crave, nothing have

49] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

50] Often and little eating makes a man fat

51] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

52] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

53] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

54] The best things come in small packages

55] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

56] Crows are all completely black

57] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

58] Train the child in the way he should go.

59] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

60] God made the country ,and man made the town

61] Don’t take your harp to the party

62] The more you get, the more you want

63] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

64] Heaven helps those who help themselves

65] Fool’s haste is no speed

66] Wrong has no warrant

67] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

68] Experience must be bought

69] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

70] A little body often harbours a great soul

71] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

72] You cannot have it both ways

73] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

74] Great talkers are never great doers

75] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

76] The highest tree has the greatest fall

77] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

78] Every little helps

79] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

80] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

81] A little too late, is much too late

82] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

83] When bees area old, they yield n honey

84] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

85] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

86] Wise men are caught in wiles

87] Don’t ride the high horse

88] Hard words break no bones

89] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

90] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

91] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

92] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

93] No one ought to judge in his own cause

94] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

95] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

96] Far from eye, far from heart

97] A bribe will enter without knocking

98] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

99] Once a knave, always a knave

100] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream