Famous Proverbs

1] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

2] Give and take is fair play

3] Too much curiosity lost paradise

4] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

5] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

6] First impressions are most lasting

7] God arms the harmless

8] Wife and Children are bills of charges

9] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

10] A little body often harbours a great soul

11] All roads lead to Rome

12] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

13] The first step is the only difficulty

14] Virtue has all things in itself

15] No convenience without its inconvenience

16] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

17] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

18] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

19] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

20] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

21] Never too late to repent

22] The falling drops hollow the stone

23] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

24] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

25] The wisest of the wise may err.

26] Many dishes make many diseases

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

28] Easy come, easy go

29] Least said, soonest mended

30] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

31] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

32] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

33] You can’t take it with you when you die

34] Better be a fool than a knave

35] Better eye sore than al blind

36] That which is easily done is soon believed

37] A miss is as good as a mile

38] A constant guest is never welcome

39] Cleanliness is next to godliness

40] Every little helps

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

42] Take things as they come

43] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

44] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

45] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

46] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

47] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

48] Don’t kick against the pricks

49] Love is blind

50] Experience is the best teacher

51] You win some, you lose some

52] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

53] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

54] Where there is no might, right loses itself

55] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

56] The hole calls the thief

57] The golden age was never the present age

58] Every light has its shadow

59] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

60] Like breeds like

61] No man is a hero to his valet

62] Haste makes waste

63] From word to deed is a great space

64] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

65] The wish is father to the thought

66] Handsome is as handsome does

67] Much science, much sorrow

68] Do it now

69] Black will take no other hue

70] A goose drinks as much as gander

71] The worse luck now, the better another time

72] A scalded cat fears hot water.

73] Fools rejoice at promises

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

75] Love is sweet torment

76] The early man ever borrows from the late man

77] He who excuses himself accuses himself

78] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

79] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

80] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

81] Beware of him who makes thee presents

82] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

83] Give a loan and buy quarrel

84] No man is infallible

85] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

86] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

87] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

88] Conscience does make cowards of us all

89] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

90] Might knows no right

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

92] Money talks

93] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

94] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

95] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

96] A word spoken is past recalling

97] Every dog has his (its) day

98] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

99] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

100] A small pepper is hotter than a large one