Famous Proverbs

1] Hard words break no bones

2] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

3] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

4] A little help is worth a deal of pity

5] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

6] Men make houses, women make homes

7] Don’t cry before you are hurt

8] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

9] Set a thief to catch a thief

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

11] A rolling stone gathers no moss

12] Truth is mighty and will prevail

13] A good name is better than a golden girdle

14] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

15] What’s done cannot be undone

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

17] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

18] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

19] Even water has its ebb and flow

20] Borrowed garments never fit well

21] The value of money is having it.

22] The king can do no wrong

23] The rich knows not who is his friend

24] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

25] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

26] Dumb men get no lands

27] The voice is the best music

28] Cast not the first stone.

29] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

30] One man sows and another reaps

31] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

32] Dirty water does not wash clean.

33] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

34] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

35] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

36] What is money to a cat?

37] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

38] A joke’s a very serious thing

39] The money you refuse will never do you good

40] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

41] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

42] Nearest the heart comes out first

43] Nature surpasses art

44] A good conscience is a sure card

45] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

46] Young saint, old devil.

47] Our own opinion is never wrong

48] He that eats well should do his duty well

49] A rich man can do nothing wrong

50] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

51] Pleasant hours fly past

52] A black hen lays a white egg

53] Between two stools you fall to the ground

54] Silence and thinking can no man offend

55] Ill news comes unsent for.

56] Ill gotten, ill spent

57] In my own house, I am king

58] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

59] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

60] To err is human

61] Delay is the antidote of anger

62] A crowd is not company

63] A man can do no more than he can

64] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

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

66] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

67] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

68] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

69] Wishes can never fill a sack

70] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

71] It is more blessed to give than to receive

72] The ass that brays most eats

73] Possibilities are infinite

74] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

75] If you play with fire you get burnt

76] Like mother, like daughter

77] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

78] What is a workman without his tools?

79] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

80] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

81] All must be as God will

82] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

83] He who serves is not free

84] Don’t cry for the moon

85] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

86] Four eyes see better than two.

87] A little too late, is much too late

88] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

89] Sooner begun, sooner done

90] The longest way round is the shortest way home

91] So many men, so many opinions

92] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

93] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

94] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

95] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

96] Much would have more

97] Two wrongs do not make a right

98] Even water has its ebb and flow

99] Lookers-on see more than players

100] Grasp all, lose all