Famous Proverbs

1] What is new cannot be true

2] Men are known by the company they keep.

3] A good beginning makes a good ending.

4] You must grin and bear it

5] A good paymaster needs no surety

6] Love turns pimples

7] Never hit a man when he’s down

8] Between two stools you fall to the ground

9] Life is short and time is swift

10] Money has no smell

11] A fool always rushes to the fore.

12] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

13] The dog is a lion in his own house

14] We live by laws, not by examples

15] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

16] Many drops make a shower

17] Plain dealing is a jewel

18] Words fly, writings remain

19] Idle folks lack no excuses

20] The value of money is having it.

21] An old fox is not easily snared

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

23] The best of friends must part

24] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

25] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

26] Nothing is so certain as death

27] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

28] Enough is as good as a feast

29] No wrong without a remedy

30] The tongue talks at the heads cost

31] A good beginning is half the battle.

32] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

33] One swallow does not make a summer

34] He that wants health wants all

35] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

36] Dead men tell no tales

37] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

38] Many words, many buffets

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

40] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

41] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

42] The devil dances in an empty pocket

43] Better late than never

44] Grief pent up will break the heart

45] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

46] A gift much expected is paid, not given

47] He that promises too much means nothing

48] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

49] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

50] Enough is enough

51] He that lives ill, fear follows him

52] Fingers were made before forks

53] One potter envies another

54] The game is not worth the candle

55] When angry, count a hundred

56] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

57] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

58] Good to begin well, better to end well.

59] No man limps because another is hurt

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

61] Take away fuel, take away flame

62] Ale will make a cat speak

63] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

64] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

65] Light burden I heavy if far borne

66] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

67] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

68] Wife and Children are bills of charges

69] Divine grace was never slow

70] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

71] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

72] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

73] Talk much end err much

74] None so blind as those who will not see

75] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

76] Pleasant hours fly past

77] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

78] Do as the friar says, not as he does

79] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

80] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

81] Waste is not grandeur

82] East or west, home is best

83] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

84] Advice when most needed is least heeded

85] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

86] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

87] It’s dogged that does it

88] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

89] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

90] He that ventures not fails not.

91] God is a sure paymaster

92] Covetousness is the root of all evil

93] Death is the grand leveler

94] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

95] The longest way round is the shortest way home

96] Speech is silver, silence is golden

97] Think on the end before you begin

98] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

99] Poverty is no sin

100] Example, is better than precept