Famous Proverbs

1] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

2] Better children weep than old men

3] Better never begin than never make an end

4] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

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

6] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

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

8] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

9] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

10] Jack is as good as his master

11] Fine words dress ill deeds

12] Ready money is ready medicine

13] Pursuits become habits

14] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

15] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

16] He who envies admits his inferiority

17] He that has plenty of goods will have more

18] Truth is stranger than fiction

19] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

20] He that speaks well, flights well

21] Do as the friar says, not as he does

22] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

23] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

24] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

25] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

26] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

27] Fortune favours fools

28] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

29] Still waters run deep

30] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

31] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

32] Worse things happen at sea

33] Better belly burst than good meat lost

34] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

35] Money can influence even the spirits

36] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

37] Law makers should not be law breakers

38] Long life has long misery

39] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

40] Travel broadens the mind

41] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

42] A house divided against itself cannot stand

43] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

44] It is good to follow the old fox

45] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

46] An old man is a bed full of bones

47] The greatest talkers are the least doers

48] Beggars must not be choosers

49] He who does no good, does evil enough

50] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

51] Mercy surpasses justice

52] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

53] A little is better than none

54] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

55] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

56] Wife and Children are bills of charges

57] A little body often harbours a great soul

58] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

59] The resolved mind has no cares

60] Be still and have thy will

61] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

62] Kind hearts are more than coronets

63] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

64] Everyone to his taste

65] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

66] God made the country ,and man made the town

67] Don’t put the cart before the horse

68] A rich man can do nothing wrong

69] He that will thrive must rise at five

70] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

71] Shrouds have no pockets

72] Mirth without measure is madness

73] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

74] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

75] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

76] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

77] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

78] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

79] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

80] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

81] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

82] Failure teaches success

83] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

84] A good conscience is a soft pillow

85] Bad news travels fast

86] Much learning makes men mad

87] A straight stick is crooked in water

88] Alms never make poor

89] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

90] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

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

92] A monk can’t shave his own head

93] A great city, a great solitude

94] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

95] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

96] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

97] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

98] Well begun is half done.

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

100] Poor folk fare the best