Famous Proverbs

1] All’s well that ends well

2] Might knows no right

3] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

4] Failure teaches success

5] Will is the cause of woe

6] Spread the table, and contention will cease

7] The unexpected always happens.

8] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

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

10] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

11] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

12] Many hands make light work

13] Facts are stubborn things

14] Love turns pimples

15] Bind the sack before it be full

16] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

17] Where there is peace, God is

18] Big words seldom go with good deeds

19] Much babbling is not without offence

20] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

21] Better are small fish than an empty dish

22] A hedge between keeps friendship green

23] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

24] Laughter makes good blood

25] A man of courage never wants weapons

26] Every man to his trade.

27] The word is far him who has patience

28] Pursuits become habits

29] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

30] Experience is good if not bought too dear

31] One potter envies another

32] He who envies admits his inferiority

33] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

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

35] Love cannot be compelled

36] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

37] He that speaks not, God hears not

38] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

39] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

40] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

41] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

42] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

43] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

44] A light purse makes a heavy heart

45] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

46] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

47] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

48] Learning is the eye of the mind

49] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

50] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

51] An ill tongue may do much

52] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

53] Honesty is ill to thrive by

54] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

55] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

56] Tell a lie and stick to it.

57] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

58] Necessity breaks iron

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

60] In wine there is truth

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

62] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

63] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

64] Don’t cry stinking fish

65] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

66] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

67] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

68] God’s lambs will play.

69] Money is the only monarch

70] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

71] Familiarity breeds contempt

72] In indecision itself, grief is present.

73] There is nothing permanent except change

74] Every commodity has its discommodity

75] No misfortune will go on forever

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

77] One must howl with the wolves

78] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

79] God’s help is better than the early rising

80] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

81] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

82] Each day brings its own bread

83] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

84] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

85] Everything new is fine

86] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

87] Habit is second nature

88] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

89] A true man and a thief think not the same

90] Few words are best

91] A stitch in time saves nine

92] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

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

94] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

95] Make the best of a bad bargain

96] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

97] None but the brave deserves the fair

98] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

99] No man so good but another may be as good as he

100] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy