Famous Proverbs

1] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

2] A useful trade is a mine of gold

3] Fine words dress ill deeds

4] Practice is the science that gives confidence

5] Share and share alike

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

7] He that ventures not fails not.

8] A good heart conquers ill fortune

9] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

10] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

11] Talk much end err much

12] Good wine needs no bush

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

14] Youth will have its course.

15] The more wicked, the more lucky

16] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

17] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

18] Between two stools you fall to the ground

19] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

20] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

21] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

22] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

23] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

24] Give and take is fair play

25] A man may bear till his back breaks

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

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

28] Grin and bear it

29] Let sleeping dogs lie

30] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

31] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

32] Don’t cry stinking fish

33] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

34] The fairest silk is soonest stained

35] Lucky men need no counsel

36] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

37] As you sow, so shall you reap

38] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

39] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

40] The golden age was never the present age

41] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

42] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

43] Look at the bright side

44] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

45] The longest night will have an end

46] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

47] Wise men are caught in wiles

48] It takes two to make a quarrel

49] God provides for him that trusts

50] A man can do no more than he can

51] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

52] An old horse knows the route

53] Fair face, foul heart

54] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

55] Set a thief to catch a thief

56] Health and wealth create beauty

57] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

58] Morning dreams come true

59] A cat may look at a king

60] What the king wills, that the law wills

61] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

62] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

63] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

64] Love and business teach eloquence

65] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

66] Flesh is frail

67] There is nothing permanent except change

68] He that eats well should do his duty well

69] Take time by the forelock

70] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

71] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

72] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

73] Health is not value till sickness comes

74] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

75] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

76] The cobbler should stick to his last

77] Necessity is a powerful weapon

78] Man proposes, God disposes

79] A miss is as good as a mile

80] Wine is the best broom for trouble

81] Example is the greatest of all seducers

82] Crows are all completely black

83] A hungry man is angry man

84] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

85] It is easy to be wise after the event

86] He who comes first, grinds first.

87] III luck is good for something

88] Remember, you are but a man

89] Like master, like man

90] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

91] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

92] Wrong has no warrant

93] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

94] Let like mate with like

95] There’s no great loss without some gain

96] Every medal has two sides

97] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

98] In haste is error

99] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

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