Famous Proverbs

1] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

2] Handsome is as handsome does

3] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

4] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

5] Brevity is the soul of wit

6] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

7] The righteous man sins before an open chest

8] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

9] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

10] Gold may be bought too dear

11] Nothing is given so freely as advice

12] Grief pent up will break the heart

13] Books and friends should be few but good

14] Honesty is ill to thrive by

15] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

16] When wine sinks, words swim

17] Do as say, not as I do

18] As you sow, so shall you reap

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

20] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

21] Dogs bark as they are bred.

22] Save your breath to cool the porridge

23] A hungry man smells meat afar off

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

25] Better an open enemy than a false friend

26] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

27] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

28] He who owes is in all the wrong

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

30] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

31] A good name is sooner lost than won

32] Business is business

33] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

34] Go not to hell for company

35] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

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

37] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

38] One is not smelt where all stink

39] Prospect is often better than possession

40] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

41] The best things carried to excess are wrong

42] An empty sack cannot stand upright

43] When bees area old, they yield n honey

44] Let like mate with like

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

46] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

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

48] He that has no money needs no purse

49] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

50] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

51] Alms never make poor

52] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

53] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

54] Cowards die many times before their deaths

55] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

56] Common fame is seldom to blame

57] He thinks not well that thinks not again

58] Suffering does not manifest itself

59] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

60] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

61] Kingdoms divided soon fall

62] No man is a hero to his valet

63] Old vessels must leak

64] Good fame is better than a good face

65] The poor suffer all the wrong

66] Speech is silver, silence is golden

67] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

68] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

69] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

70] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

71] As you brew, so shall you drink.

72] Kill two birds with one stone

73] Well done is better than well said

74] Extremity of right is wrong

75] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

76] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

77] A good marksman may miss

78] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

79] The money you refuse will never do you good

80] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

81] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

82] Never refuse a good offer

83] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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

85] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

86] Every beginning is hard

87] A parrot will only say what it is taught

88] An evil life is a kind of death.

89] No man fears what he has seen grow

90] Light burden I heavy if far borne

91] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

92] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

93] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

94] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

95] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

96] Opportunity makes the thief

97] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

98] First come, first served

99] Everything is good in its season

100] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing