Famous Proverbs

1] Do unto others as they should do unto you

2] See how the wind blows

3] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

4] No man is indispensable

5] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

6] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

7] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

8] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

9] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

10] Give credit where credit is due

11] Innocence is no protection

12] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

13] Nature hates all sudden changes

14] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

15] Enough is as good as a feast

16] An empty sack cannot stand upright

17] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

18] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

19] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

20] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

21] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

22] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

23] Of a new prince, new bondage

24] Adventures are to be adventurous

25] A miss is as good as a mile

26] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

27] Law makers should not be law breakers

28] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

29] He would command must serve

30] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

31] He that is absent is soon forgotten

32] Old vessels must leak

33] A heavy purse makes a light heart

34] Even reckoning makes long friends

35] The labourer is worthy of his hire

36] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

37] Actions speak louder than words

38] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

39] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

40] Plain dealing is a jewel

41] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

42] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

43] He who hesitates is lost

44] No man fears what he has seen grow

45] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

46] While there is life, there is hope

47] Practice what you preach

48] A merchant that gains not, loses

49] Give a loan and buy quarrel

50] Good luck beats early rising

51] All’s fair in love and war

52] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

53] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

54] It is good fishing in troubled waters

55] Lucky men need no counsel

56] Learning is the eye of the mind

57] He that pities another remembers himself

58] One is what one eats

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

60] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

61] No man is a hero to his valet

62] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

63] Wishes can never fill a sack

64] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

65] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

66] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

67] Names are debts

68] Strike while the iron is hot

69] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

70] The absent saint gets no candle

71] You know what you can do till you try.

72] Corn him well and he will work better

73] First catch your hare

74] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

75] As soon as there is life there is danger

76] One man sows and another reaps

77] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

78] Nothing is given so freely as advice

79] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

80] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

81] If today will not, tomorrow may

82] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

83] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

84] Where there’s a will there’s a way

85] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

86] Little by little and bit by bit.

87] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

88] So many countries, so many customs

89] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

90] Love can find a way

91] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

92] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

93] Money is power

94] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

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

96] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

97] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

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

99] He that lives ill, fear follows him

100] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich