Famous Proverbs

1] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

2] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

3] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

4] Lucky men need no counsel

5] Acorns were good till bread was found

6] Look before you leap

7] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

8] Know thyself

9] Where there is whispering there is lying

10] He that eats least eats most

11] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

12] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

13] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

14] Danger makes men devout

15] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

16] No land without stones, or meat without bones

17] Two heads are better than one

18] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

19] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

20] It is good fishing in troubled waters

21] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

22] A beggar can never be bankrupt

23] Plain dealing is a jewel

24] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

25] Haste is of (or from) the devil

26] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

27] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

28] Everything would fain live

29] The tide must be taken when it comes

30] He that eats well should do his duty well

31] Weeds need no sowing

32] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

33] Make hay while the sun shines

34] Sorrow will pay no debt

35] Nature abhors a vacuum

36] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

37] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

38] Fortune is blind

39] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

40] Bind the sack before it be full

41] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

42] What will not money do?

43] Our own opinion is never wrong

44] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

45] The goat must browse where she is tied

46] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

47] Appearances are deceptive

48] It is best to be on the safe side

49] A cat has nine lives

50] Every flow must have its ebb

51] Silence is golden

52] Don’t ride the high horse

53] The ant had wings to her hurt

54] Anger managers everything badly.

55] There is no fool like an old fool

56] No news is good news

57] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

58] Friendship should not be all on one side

59] What is new cannot be true

60] Names are debts

61] Innocence is no protection

62] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

63] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

64] Variety is the spice of life

65] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

66] Petty laws breed great crimes

67] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

68] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

69] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

70] Seek and you shall find

71] All heiresses are beautiful.

72] Weak things united become strong

73] Cleanliness is next to godliness

74] Speech is silver, silence is golden

75] A man with no hands is given a ring.

76] Man proposes, God disposes

77] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

78] A fool believes everything

79] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

80] Sooner begun, sooner done

81] Every why has a wherefore

82] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

83] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

84] It’s dogged that does it

85] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

86] Every cloud has a silver lining

87] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

88] Better a bare foot than none

89] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

90] Dirty water does not wash clean.

91] Children and chickens must be always picking

92] Never too late to repent

93] Better sit still than rise and fall

94] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

95] Old cattle breed not

96] Put out your tubs when it is raining

97] Asking costs little

98] The worse luck now, the better another time

99] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

100] There are two sides to every question