Famous Proverbs

1] It’s dogged that does it

2] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

3] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

4] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

5] Leave well alone

6] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

7] He who envies admits his inferiority

8] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

9] He that has plenty of goods will have more

10] Seeing is believing

11] Custom reconciles us to everything

12] A good dog deserves a good bone

13] Thrift is a great revenue

14] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

15] Cheats never prosper

16] Sickness soaks the purse

17] The tongue talks at the heads cost

18] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

19] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

20] Dirty water does not wash clean.

21] An obedient wife commands her husband

22] Revenge is sweet

23] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

24] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

25] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

26] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

27] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

28] When one door shuts, another opens

29] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

30] Spend and be free, but make no waste

31] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

32] Possibilities are infinite

33] Work smart; don’t work hard

34] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

35] Fine feathers make fine birds.

36] You cannot have it both ways

37] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

38] They brag most who can do least

39] The ass that brays most eats

40] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

41] Love is lawless.

42] Better a bare foot than none

43] A good name is sooner lost than won

44] The biter is sometimes bit

45] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

46] More than enough is too much

47] Birds of a feather flock together

48] Penny and penny laid up will be many

49] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

50] Put not the bucket too often in the well

51] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

52] Do unto others as they should do unto you

53] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

54] Pat any man and dust will fly

55] He travels the fastest who travels alone

56] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

57] The more you have the more you want

58] Cowards die many times before their deaths

59] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

60] Dying is as natural as living

61] A stitch in time saves nine

62] The lion had need of the mouse

63] Love knows no limit

64] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

65] Never do things by halves

66] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

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

68] Even water has its ebb and flow

69] Muck and money go together

70] The wisest of the wise may err.

71] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

72] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

73] Great hopes make great men

74] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

75] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

76] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

77] Great oaks from little acorns grow

78] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

79] Good counsel never comes amiss

80] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

81] All’s fish that comes to the net

82] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

83] None can guess the jewel by the casket

84] There is a black sheep in every flock

85] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

86] Make the best of a bad job

87] An egg thief will become a camel thief

88] Wise men silent, fools talk

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

90] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

91] Dumb dogs are dangerous

92] Money talks

93] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

94] The envious man shall never want woe

95] It is useless to flog a dead horse

96] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

97] One sheep follows another

98] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

99] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

100] Everything must have a beginning