Famous Proverbs

1] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

2] Silence is golden

3] Better say noting than no to the purpose

4] Fools grow without watering.

5] Every advantage has its disadvantage

6] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

7] Things are seldom what they seem.

8] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

9] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

10] Liars should have good memories

11] Friends agree best at a distance

12] Fools rejoice at promises

13] Don’t cry for the moon

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

15] Flesh is frail

16] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

17] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

18] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

19] Sickness shows us what we are

20] A heavy purse makes a light heart

21] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

22] One foot is better than two crutches

23] Nature is the true law

24] All meat pleases not all mouths

25] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

26] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

27] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

28] Waste is not grandeur

29] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

30] You may have too much of a good thing

31] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

32] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

33] Many eyes upon the king

34] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

35] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

36] Everyone to his taste

37] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

38] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

39] He that speaks not, God hears not

40] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

41] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

42] Wise men silent, fools talk

43] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

44] There’s a black sheep in every flock

45] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

46] No news is good news

47] Every man praises his own wares

48] Divide and rule

49] The young will sow their wild oats

50] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

51] Hunger breaks stone walls

52] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

53] Trust not the many-minded populace

54] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

55] Better never begin than never make an end

56] There is no royal road to learning

57] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

58] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

59] A bad padlock invites a picklock

60] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

61] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

62] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

63] First thrive then wive

64] There is nothing permanent except change

65] You cannot serve God and Mammon

66] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

67] Marriage is a lottery

68] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

69] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

70] He that has no money needs no purse

71] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

72] To err is human

73] Health is better than wealth

74] Truth has no need of rhetoric

75] Ale will make a cat speak

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

77] He who wills the end, Wills the means

78] Evil to him who evil thinks.

79] Rip not up old sores

80] Self-praise is no recommendation

81] He that repairs not a part, builds all

82] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

83] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

84] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

85] None so deaf as those that will not hear

86] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

87] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

88] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

89] What has been, may be

90] Long absent, soon forgotten

91] The end crowns the work.

92] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

93] Black will take no other hue

94] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

95] Life means strife

96] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

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

98] It is best to be on the safe side

99] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

100] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure