Famous Proverbs

1] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

2] Praise no man till he is dead.

3] Bear with evil and expect good

4] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

5] Let sleeping dogs lie

6] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

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

8] A good conscience is a sure card

9] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

10] The best things in life are free

11] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

12] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

13] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

14] A strong town is not won in an hour

15] A fool believes everything

16] A short cut is often a wrong cut

17] He travels the fastest who travels alone

18] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

19] Dumb men get no lands

20] Everything is good in its season

21] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

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

23] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

24] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

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

26] He who sows, trusts in God

27] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

28] Every Jack must have his Jill

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

30] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

31] A useful trade is a mine of gold

32] One can’t help many, but many can help one

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

34] Even water has its ebb and flow

35] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

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

37] All our pomp the earth covers

38] Adventures are to be adventurous

39] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

40] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

41] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

42] Nothing seek, nothing find

43] No man is a hero to his valet

44] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

45] Experience is the best teacher

46] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

47] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

48] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

49] Come with the wind, got with the water

50] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

51] Don’t ride the high horse

52] Revenge is sweet

53] He who envies admits his inferiority

54] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

55] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

56] The devil dances in an empty pocket

57] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

58] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

59] Patience is a plaster for all sores

60] You never know your luck

61] He that knows little often repeats it

62] The first blow is half the battle

63] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

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

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

66] Riches along make no men happy

67] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

68] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

69] Love me, love the crows on my roof

70] Needs must when the devil drives

71] Every path has a puddle

72] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

73] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

74] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

75] Riches along make no men happy

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

77] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

78] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

79] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

80] A man’s mother is his other God

81] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

82] A useful trade is a mine of gold

83] Dead men don’t bite

84] The cowl does not make the monk.

85] No man fears what he has seen grow

86] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

87] One man’s means another man’s poison

88] Sweet are the uses of adversity

89] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

90] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

91] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

92] Good words are worth much and cost little

93] There’s a time and place for everything

94] What is worth doing is worth doing well

95] Spare the rod and spoil the child

96] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

97] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

98] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

99] Every man to his trade.

100] One must be a servant before one can be a master