Famous Proverbs

1] Too many cooks spoil the broth

2] There is no fool like an old fool

3] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

4] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

5] The result justifies the deed

6] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

7] Never say die

8] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

9] A good beginning is half the battle.

10] Charity excuseth not cheating.

11] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

12] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

13] Might knows no right

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

15] The axe falls on a straight tree first

16] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

17] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

18] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

19] A stitch in time saves nine

20] The early man ever borrows from the late man

21] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

22] Do right and fear no man

23] Seek and you shall find

24] The fairest silk is soonest stained

25] The rich knows not who is his friend

26] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

27] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

28] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

29] Extremity of right is wrong

30] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

31] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

32] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

33] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

34] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

35] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

36] Good fame is better than a good face

37] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

38] See which way the cat jumps

39] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

40] An old fox is not easily snared

41] Garbage in, garbage out

42] Common fame is seldom to blame

43] Custom makes all things easy

44] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

45] It takes two to make a quarrel

46] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

47] Young saint, old devil.

48] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

49] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

50] Threatened folk live long

51] Children learn to creep ere they can go

52] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

53] The love of money is the root of all evil

54] Christmas comes but once a year

55] A fault confessed is half redressed

56] Will is no skill

57] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

58] No news is good news

59] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

60] A fault once denied is twice committed

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

62] The axe falls on a straight tree first

63] Each day brings its own bread

64] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

65] A bad workman always blames his tools

66] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

67] Vice makes virtue shine

68] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

69] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

70] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

71] No man is wise at all times

72] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

73] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

74] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

75] Laughter makes good blood

76] There is no royal road to learning

77] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

78] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

79] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

80] Every why has a wherefore

81] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

82] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

83] A joke’s a very serious thing

84] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

85] No cross, no crown

86] Love delights in praise

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

88] Like mother, like daughter

89] Many words, many buffets

90] Don’t meet trouble half-way

91] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

92] Distance lends enchantment to the view

93] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

94] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

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

96] Hard cases make bad law

97] A closed mouth catches no files

98] Like father, like son

99] There are more men threatened than stricken

100] Don’t try to run before you walk