Famous Proverbs

1] Weeds need no sowing

2] You can’t clap with one hand

3] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

4] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

5] Words are but wind

6] Six feet of earth make all men equal

7] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

8] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

9] The best things are hard to come by.

10] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

11] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

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

13] For a web begun, God sends the thread

14] It is useless to flog a dead horse

15] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

16] What’s in a name?

17] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

18] An evil life is a kind of death.

19] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

20] Adam’s ale is the best brew

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

22] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

23] If the cap fits, wear it

24] Work expands so as to fill the time available

25] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

26] All’s fish that comes to the net

27] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

28] Numbers overcome the brave

29] A rolling stone gathers no moss

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

31] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

32] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

33] You cannot have your cake and eat it

34] Rich folk have many friends

35] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

36] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

37] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

38] The best of friends must part

39] Lookers-on see more than players

40] Better an apple given than eaten

41] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

42] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

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

44] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

45] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

46] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

47] Enough is enough

48] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

49] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

50] Learn to walk before you run

51] If you would be well served, serve yourself

52] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

53] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

54] Variety is charming

55] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

56] His bark is worse than his bite

57] A good heart cannot lie.

58] The voice is the best music

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

60] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

61] Much would have more

62] A man’s mother is his other God

63] Least said, soonest mended

64] Black will take no other hue

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

66] A hungry man smells meat afar off

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

68] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

69] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

70] The coward threatens only when he is safe

71] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

72] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

73] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

74] Example, is better than precept

75] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

76] No man is born wise or learned

77] Take away fuel, take away flame

78] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

79] Do as say, not as I do

80] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

81] Money is the sinew of affairs

82] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

83] Every advantage has its disadvantage

84] Wrong never comes right

85] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

86] Self do, self have

87] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

88] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

89] Practice makes perfect

90] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

91] Waste is not grandeur

92] Years know more than books

93] Petty laws breed great crimes

94] Of three main roads, take the middle one

95] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

96] In everything consider the end

97] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

98] Cleanliness is next to godliness

99] The great would have none great, and the little all little

100] No one ought to judge in his own cause