Famous Proverbs

1] Spread the table, and contention will cease

2] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

3] One is what one eats

4] Shrouds have no pockets

5] God made the country ,and man made the town

6] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

7] Half an egg is better than empty shell

8] At a good bargain thinks twice

9] The best of friends must part

10] What will not money do?

11] All is fair in love and war

12] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

13] It is more pain to do nothing than something

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

15] Names are debts

16] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

17] An old horse knows the route

18] Loyalty is worth more than money

19] It is well to live that one may learn

20] A good dog deserves a good bone

21] Do as the friar says, not as he does

22] Do not kick against the pricks

23] Gossiping and lying go together

24] No road is long with good company

25] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

26] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

27] He that talks much, errs much

28] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

29] Better be a fool than a knave

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

31] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

32] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

33] No pain, no cure

34] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

35] Better the last smile than the first laugh

36] Better beg than steal.

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

38] All things require skills but an appetite

39] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

40] The more you have the more you want

41] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

42] Every man must carry his own cross

43] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

44] Once a use and ever a custom

45] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

46] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

47] One master in a house is enough

48] Wise men silent, fools talk

49] Like mother, like daughter

50] Wife and Children are bills of charges

51] All covet all lose.

52] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

53] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

54] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

55] Ill gotten, ill spent

56] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

57] The labourer is worthy of his hire

58] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

59] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

60] Many a true word is spoken in jest

61] Ambition loses many a man

62] Hope is the poor man’s bread

63] Hope is the poor man’s bread

64] No choice amongst stinking fish

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

66] Easier said than done

67] Kingdoms divided soon fall

68] Great actions speak minds

69] New brooms sweep clean

70] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

71] Work expands so as to fill the time available

72] A bad excuse is better than none at all

73] Time flies

74] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

75] No man is indispensable

76] The longest way round is the shortest way home

77] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

78] Never do things by halves

79] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

80] A piece of churchyard fits every body

81] The rich knows not who is his friend

82] Nature surpasses art

83] The hand that gives, gathers

84] Look before you leap

85] Fortune favours fools

86] Envy never enriched any man.

87] Man does what he can, and God what he will

88] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

89] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

90] Fool’s haste is no speed

91] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

92] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

93] Who greases his way travels easily

94] Brevity is the soul of wit

95] He who comes late must eat what is left

96] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

97] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

98] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

99] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

100] Honesty is the best policy