Famous Proverbs

1] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

2] When bees area old, they yield n honey

3] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

4] Look before you leap

5] The deed comes back upon the doer.

6] Distance lends enchantment to the view

7] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

8] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

9] A good dog deserves a good bone

10] Confess and be hanged

11] Example, is better than precept

12] Men are known by the company they keep.

13] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

14] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

15] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

16] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

17] He that has a wife, has strife

18] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

19] The dog is a lion in his own house

20] Patience is a plaster for all sores

21] True gold is not transformed by fire

22] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

23] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

24] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

25] See how the wind blows

26] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

27] Wake not a sleeping lion

28] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

29] The best fish swim near the bottom

30] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

31] He who serves is not free

32] He travels the fastest who travels alone

33] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

34] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

35] Custom reconciles us to everything

36] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

37] Care killed the cat

38] Kill two birds with one stone

39] First think, and then speak

40] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

41] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

42] It is all in the day’s work

43] More haste, less speed

44] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

45] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

46] Hope keeps man alive

47] Jesters do oft prove prophets

48] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

49] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

50] Money is the root of all evil

51] He who pays the piper calls the tune

52] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

53] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

54] No man is his craft’s master the first day

55] Money is the sinews of war

56] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

57] Better be a fool than a knave

58] Sickness soaks the purse

59] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

60] Money is the sinew of affairs

61] All glory comes from daring to begin

62] A still tongue makes a wise head

63] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

64] A mouse may help a lion

65] Where god will help, nothing does harm

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

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

68] Small is the seed of every greatness

69] He that wants health wants all

70] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

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

72] He that pities another remembers himself

73] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

74] Best is cheapest

75] Company in misery makes it light

76] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

77] Friendship should not be all on one side

78] He knows the water best who has waded through it

79] Good counsel never comes amiss

80] Double charge will rive a cannon

81] No man limps because another is hurt

82] There are more men threatened than stricken

83] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

84] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

85] Bad luck often brings good luck

86] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

87] An Englishman’s home is his castle

88] Birds once snared fear all bushes

89] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

90] There is no royal road to learning

91] Once a knave, always a knave

92] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

93] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

94] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

95] Shrouds have no pockets

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

97] Soon hot, soon cold

98] Man proposes, God disposes

99] Every shoe fits not every foot

100] Every man is the architect of his own fortune