Famous Proverbs

1] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

2] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

3] There is no time like the present

4] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

5] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

6] A goose drinks as much as gander

7] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

8] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

9] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

10] A stitch in time saves nine

11] Better a bare foot than none

12] A traveller may lie with authority

13] No man can serve two masters

14] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

15] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

16] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

17] Do as I say, not as I do

18] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

19] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

20] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

21] Little things please little minds

22] A word spoken is past recalling

23] It is no use crying over spilt milk

24] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

25] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

26] United we stand, divided we fall

27] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

28] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

29] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

30] Dreams are lies

31] Hunger is the best sauce

32] Every man is his own worst enemy

33] We live by laws, not by examples

34] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

35] First impressions are half the battle

36] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

37] Young colts will canter.

38] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

39] Jack is as good as his master

40] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

41] Custom makes all things easy

42] Much would have more

43] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

44] Two wrongs do not make a right

45] Life is not all beer and skittles

46] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

47] Do not limp before the lame

48] Beauty draws more than oxen

49] Paddle your own canoe

50] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

51] Patience is a virtue

52] Do not kick against the pricks

53] Where there’s muck, there’s money

54] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

55] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

56] Every groom is a king at home

57] Trust not the many-minded populace

58] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

59] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

60] A man’s studies pass in to his character

61] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

62] Fortune favours fools

63] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

64] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

65] All heiresses are beautiful.

66] Great talkers are never great doers

67] They can do least two boast loudest

68] Manners and money make a gentleman

69] He that desires but little has no deed of much

70] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

71] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

72] Wrong never comes right

73] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

74] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

75] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

76] When you do not know what to do – wait.

77] A good face is a letter of recommendation

78] Repentance is a bitter physic

79] A word to the wise is enough

80] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

81] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

82] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

83] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

84] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

85] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

86] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

87] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

88] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

89] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

90] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

91] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

92] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

93] A great city, a great solitude

94] The young will sow their wild oats

95] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

96] A man’s mother is his other God

97] What is word but wind?

98] He that seeks trouble never misses

99] Diligence is the mother of good luck

100] At open doors, dogs come in