Famous Proverbs

1] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

2] All good things must come to an end

3] If the cap fits, wear it

4] One master in a house is enough

5] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

6] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

7] All our pomp the earth covers

8] Covetousness is the root of all evil

9] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

10] An obedient wife commands her husband

11] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

12] Love knows hidden paths

13] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

14] Children and chickens must be always picking

15] A bribe will enter without knocking

16] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

17] Many hands make light work

18] Long looked for, comes at last

19] There’s a black sheep in every flock

20] A useful trade is a mine of gold

21] Help a lame dog over a stile

22] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

23] Better unborn than untaught

24] Cast not the first stone.

25] Have two strings to your bow

26] A word before is worth two behind

27] Too far east is west

28] He that knows little often repeats it

29] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

30] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

31] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

32] All glory comes from daring to begin

33] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

34] Black will take no other hue

35] He who touches pitch will be defiled

36] Never too late to late to repent

37] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

38] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

39] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

40] Penny wise, pound foolish

41] Prevention is better than cure

42] Appetite comes with eating

43] When in doubt, do nothing

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

45] You never know your luck

46] The devil looks after his own

47] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

48] Hear twice before you speak once

49] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

50] What everybody says must be true

51] Union (or Unity) is strength

52] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

53] Tomorrow never comes

54] Big fish eat little fish

55] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

56] Too far east is west

57] He that sows virtue reaps fame

58] Money can influence even the spirits

59] Example, is better than precept

60] There is no accounting for tastes

61] Call no man happy till he is dead

62] Might is right

63] Dogs bark as they are bred.

64] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

65] The child is father of the man

66] Where there’s muck, there’s money

67] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

68] The more wicked, the more lucky

69] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

70] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

71] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

72] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

73] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

74] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

75] Never hit a man when he’s down

76] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

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

78] There is many a fair thing full false

79] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

80] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

81] A good beginning makes a good ending.

82] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

83] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

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

85] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

86] No hair so small but has his shadow

87] Expectation is better than realisation

88] Boys will be boys

89] The weakest goes to the wall

90] When meat is in anger is out

91] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

92] All truths are not to be told

93] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

94] Look on the bright side

95] Look before you leap

96] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

97] Procrastination is the thief of time

98] Change of pasture makes fat calves

99] Do not kick against the pricks

100] Put out your tubs when it is raining