Famous Proverbs

1] What will not money do?

2] Dead dogs bark not

3] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

4] Don’t cry before you are hurt

5] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

6] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

7] Leave well alone

8] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

9] Help a lame dog over a stile

10] The thread breaks where it is weakest

11] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

12] One kindness is the price of another

13] Don’t take your harp to the party

14] God arms the harmless

15] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

16] You cannot make bricks without straw

17] It takes a wise man to be a fool

18] Black will take no other hue

19] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

20] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

21] A bully is always a coward

22] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

23] One cannot put back the clock

24] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

25] A bad excuse is better than none at all

26] Business is business

27] Like father, like son

28] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

29] The road to hell is paved with good action

30] They can do least two boast loudest

31] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

32] The best things carried to excess are wrong

33] Empty vessels make the most noise

34] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

35] The ass that brays most eats

36] The longest journey starts with a single step

37] It is easy to be wise after the event

38] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

39] His bark is worse than his bite

40] He that knows little often repeats it

41] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

42] God is always on the side of the big battalions

43] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

44] A merchant that gains not, loses

45] Many drops make a shower

46] Men do more things through habit than reason

47] A bribe will enter without knocking

48] He who pays the piper calls the tune

49] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

50] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

51] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

52] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

53] What’s done cannot be undone

54] An old horse knows the route

55] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

56] The road to hell is paved with good action

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

58] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

59] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

60] Where there is peace, there is blessing

61] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

62] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

63] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

64] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

65] He is wise who looks ahead

66] Do as you would be done by

67] Good counsel never comes amiss

68] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

69] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

70] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

71] The company makes the feast

72] A good beginning makes a good ending.

73] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

74] A monk can’t shave his own head

75] It is well to live that one may learn

76] Birds once snared fear all bushes

77] One reason is as good as fifty

78] Bind the sack before it be full

79] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

80] So many countries, so many customs

81] Where god will help, nothing does harm

82] The first blow is half the battle

83] Will is the cause of woe

84] A beggar can never be bankrupt

85] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

86] Patient waiters are no losers

87] Coming events cast their shadows before

88] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

89] Never do evil that good may come of it

90] He that praises himself, spatters himself

91] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

92] The absent party is always to blame.

93] A friend is easier lost than found

94] Better an apple given than eaten

95] No pains, no gains

96] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

97] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

98] In haste is error

99] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

100] Of a new prince, new bondage