Famous Proverbs

1] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

2] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

3] The result justifies the deed

4] Misfortune does not always come to injure

5] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

6] What’s done cannot be undone

7] There is no place like home

8] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

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

10] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

11] A good wife is a good prize

12] The unexpected always happens.

13] Weak things united become strong

14] The good die young.

15] You never know what you can do till you try

16] Good wine needs no bush

17] Hunger is the best sauce

18] Nearest the heart comes out first

19] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

20] Take the will for the deed

21] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

22] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

23] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

24] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

25] Diligence is the mother of good luck

26] Poverty is no sin

27] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

28] Old cattle breed not

29] Sorrow will pay no debt

30] A good heart conquers ill fortune

31] Like mother, like daughter

32] Practice what you preach

33] Appearances are deceptive

34] Men are known by the company they keep.

35] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

36] A little is better than none

37] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

38] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

39] God is a sure paymaster

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

41] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

42] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

43] None so busy as those who do nothing.

44] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

45] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

46] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

47] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

48] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

49] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

50] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

51] Hunger is sharper than the sword

52] Silence is a woman’s best garment

53] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

54] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

55] Marriage makes or mars a man

56] One must be a servant before one can be a master

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

58] Patient men with the day.

59] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

60] Big words seldom go with good deeds

61] Let not your tongue run at rover

62] None so deaf as those that will not hear

63] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

64] Like master, like man

65] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

66] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

67] Practice makes perfect

68] Erring is not heating

69] Thrift is a great revenue

70] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

71] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

72] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

73] A good heart conquers ill fortune

74] Fortune is blind

75] Never grieve for what you cannot help

76] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

77] Poverty parts friendship

78] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

79] Wishes can never fill a sack

80] Desire beautifies what is ugly

81] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

82] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

83] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

84] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

85] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

86] Out of sight, out of mind

87] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

88] The world is full of fools

89] Young colts will canter.

90] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

91] Covetousness brings nothing home

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

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

94] A good conscience is a constant feast

95] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

96] One kindness is the price of another

97] Put not the bucket too often in the well

98] A good lather is half the shave

99] Forewarned is forearmed

100] A door must be either shut or open