Famous Proverbs

1] Mirth without measure is madness

2] A short cut is often a wrong cut

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

4] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

5] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

6] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

7] Man cannot live by bread alone

8] Old cattle breed not

9] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

10] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

11] It is too late to call back yesterday

12] Take heed is a fair thing

13] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

14] A good name is better than riches

15] Even reckoning makes long friends

16] He that has no shame has no conscience

17] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

18] Cowards die many times before their deaths

19] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

20] He who comes late must eat what is left

21] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

22] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

23] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

24] A bad padlock invites a picklock

25] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

26] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

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

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

29] Human blood is all of a colour

30] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

31] The money you refuse will never do you good

32] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

33] The best things are hard to come by.

34] Many hands make light work

35] Light burden I heavy if far borne

36] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

37] The day obliterates the promise of the might

38] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

39] He that pities another remembers himself

40] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

41] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

42] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

43] Change brings life

44] The thing which is rare is dear

45] A penny saved is a penny gained

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

47] There is honour among thieves

48] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

49] Take things as you find them

50] There’s no great loss without some gain

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

52] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

53] Work expands so as to fill the time available

54] The righteous man sins before an open chest

55] Dying men speak true

56] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

57] The golden age was never the present age

58] Experience must be bought

59] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

60] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

61] Diligence is the mother of good luck

62] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

63] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

64] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

65] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

66] Covetousness breaks the sack

67] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

68] Soon hot, soon cold

69] Even a worm will turn

70] Beauty fades like a flower.

71] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

72] Do not wear out your welcome

73] Never judge from appearances

74] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

75] Opportunity makes the thief

76] A strong town is not won in an hour

77] A hungry man is angry man

78] The axe falls on a straight tree first

79] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

80] The age of miracles is past

81] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

82] What is new cannot be true

83] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

84] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

85] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

86] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

87] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

88] Repentance comes too late

89] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

90] One thief will not rob another

91] The devil is not as black as he is painted

92] Great minds think alike

93] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

94] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

95] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

96] There is none misfortune cannot reach

97] The dog is a lion in his own house

98] Death keeps no calendar

99] Hope keeps man alive

100] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost