Famous Proverbs

1] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

2] Much learning makes men mad

3] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

4] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

5] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

6] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

7] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

8] Fire is a good servant a bad master

9] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

10] A good garden may have some ill weeds

11] Faint heart never won fair lady

12] What must be must be

13] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

14] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

15] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

16] What will not money do?

17] When bees area old, they yield n honey

18] The highest branch is not the safest roost

19] Rich folk have many friends

20] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

21] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

22] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

23] You may have too much of a good thing

24] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

25] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

26] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

27] There is nothing permanent except change

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

29] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

30] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

31] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

32] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

33] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

34] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

35] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

36] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

37] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

38] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

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

40] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

41] One lie makes many

42] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

43] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

44] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

45] You can’t tell a book by its cover

46] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

47] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

48] Divine grace was never slow

49] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

50] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

51] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

52] There is nothing permanent except change

53] He that has a wife, has strife

54] Soon gotten, soon spent

55] Tell a lie and stick to it.

56] Homer sometimes nods

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

58] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

59] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

60] Better be alone than in bad company

61] Nature does nothing in vain

62] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

63] Every little helps

64] God is a sure paymaster

65] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

66] Lend never that thing you needed most

67] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

68] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

69] Never buy a pig in a poke

70] You may know by a handful the whole sack

71] Take things as you find them

72] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

73] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

74] He that does most at once, does least

75] Grasp all, lose all

76] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

77] Time has wings

78] Self do, self have

79] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

80] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

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

82] Everything must have a beginning

83] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

84] Never too late to learn

85] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

86] Nothing crave, nothing have

87] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

88] He gives twice who gives quickly

89] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

90] Time flies

91] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

92] One kindness is the price of another

93] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

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

95] Crime does not pay

96] What’s done cannot be undone

97] There is honour among thieves

98] Enough is enough

99] Where there is no might, right loses itself

100] Misfortune tells us what fortune is