Famous Proverbs

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

2] God’s lambs will play.

3] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

4] Failure teaches success

5] Accidents will happen

6] Who greases his way travels easily

7] What has been, may be

8] Silence is also speech

9] Take time by the forelock

10] Lend your money and lose a friend

11] Much science, much sorrow

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

13] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

14] Many a little makes a mickle

15] All things that great men do are well done

16] No convenience without its inconvenience

17] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

18] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

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

20] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

21] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

22] A fool always rushes to the fore.

23] A miss is as good as a mile

24] A friend is easier lost than found

25] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

26] Friends agree best at a distance

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

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

29] A light purse makes a heavy heart

30] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

31] There’s no place like home

32] Beware of him who makes thee presents

33] Youth will have its course.

34] Friends agree best at a distance

35] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

36] Slow help is no help

37] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

38] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

39] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

40] Dreams are lies

41] When the cat is away, the mice will play

42] Garbage in, garbage out

43] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

44] The road to hell is paved with good action

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

46] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

47] Numbers overcome the brave

48] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

49] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

50] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

51] Novelty always appears handsome

52] Procrastination is the thief of time

53] Gossiping and lying go together

54] No choice amongst stinking fish

55] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

56] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

57] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

58] Frugality is the mother of virtue

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

60] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

61] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

62] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

63] A black hen lays a white egg

64] Corn him well and he will work better

65] None so blind as those who will not see

66] Spread the table, and contention will cease

67] Hunger breaks stone walls

68] Don’t cry for the moon

69] The faulty stands on his guard

70] No man so good but another may be as good as he

71] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

72] Two blacks do not make a white

73] Bold men have generous hearts

74] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

75] Better learn late than never

76] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

77] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

78] Better the last smile than the first laugh

79] Old cattle breed not

80] Self-praise is no recommendation

81] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

82] He who hesitates is lost

83] It is good to follow the old fox

84] Virtue is the only true nobility

85] The early man ever borrows from the late man

86] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

87] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

88] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

89] Poverty is no sin

90] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

91] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

92] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

93] One father is more than a hundred school masters

94] Where god will help, nothing does harm

95] The borrower is servant to the lender

96] He that has an ill name is half hanged

97] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

98] Spare the rod and spoil the child

99] Don’t cry before you are hurt

100] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die