Famous Proverbs

1] There is safety in numbers

2] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

3] Wink at small faults

4] Grief pent up will break the heart

5] Where there is peace, God is

6] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

7] An empty sack cannot stand upright

8] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

9] There is none misfortune cannot reach

10] No man can serve two masters

11] Slow but sure wins the race

12] Might overcome right.

13] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

14] Crime does not pay

15] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

16] The thing which is rare is dear

17] No pains, no gains

18] The highest branch is not the safest roost

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

20] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

21] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

22] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

23] Least said, soonest mended

24] Work smart; don’t work hard

25] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

26] Experience is the mother of wisdom

27] Hope often deludes the foolish man

28] There is no garden without its weeds

29] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

30] As you brew, so shall you drink.

31] Nature does nothing in vain

32] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

33] Kindness lies in one side of the house

34] Ill news comes unsent for.

35] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

36] Birds of a feather flock together

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

38] Paddle your own canoe

39] Money is the sinews of war

40] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

41] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

42] Wishes can never fill a sack

43] After a storm comes a calm

44] A good heart cannot lie.

45] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

46] Much law but little justice

47] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

48] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

49] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

50] As you brew, so shall you drink.

51] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

52] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

53] There’s no place like home

54] Once a use and ever a custom

55] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

56] A traveller may lie with authority

57] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

58] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

59] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

60] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

61] A fault once denied is twice committed

62] All is vanity.

63] The more laws, the more offenders

64] It takes a wise man to be a fool

65] Love is sweet torment

66] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

67] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

68] No choice amongst stinking fish

69] His bark is worse than his bite

70] Blue are the far away hills

71] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

72] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

73] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

74] Take away fuel, take away flame

75] Learn not and know not

76] Silence gives (or means) consent

77] The bait hides the hook

78] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

79] Common fame is a liar

80] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

81] A good beginning makes a good ending.

82] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

83] Honest is the best policy

84] The rich knows not who is his friend

85] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

86] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

87] What costs little is little esteemed

88] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

89] There is no time like the present

90] Past cure, past care

91] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

92] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

93] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

94] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

95] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

96] Needs must when the evil drives

97] Where there is no might, right loses itself

98] Fear of death is worse than death itself

99] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

100] The best things come in small packages