Famous Proverbs

1] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

2] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

3] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

4] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

5] A piece of churchyard fits every body

6] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

7] Black will take no other hue

8] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

9] Health without money is half an ague

10] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

11] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

12] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

13] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

14] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

15] Let us do evil that good may come

16] It is all in the day’s work

17] Names and natures do often agree

18] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

19] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

20] A word before is worth two behind

21] More haste, less speed

22] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

23] A true friend is forever a friend

24] One hand washes the other

25] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

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

27] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

28] Possibilities are infinite

29] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

30] Discontent is the first step in progress

31] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

32] Old habits die hard

33] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

34] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

35] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

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

37] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

38] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

39] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

40] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

41] Ill comes often on the back worse

42] Divine grace was never slow

43] Wash your dirty linen at home

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

45] One can’t help many, but many can help one

46] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

47] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

48] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

49] The last drop makes the cup run over

50] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

51] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

52] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

53] An egg thief will become a camel thief

54] They say so’ is half a lie

55] Laws were made to be broke

56] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

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

58] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

59] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

60] Familiarity breeds contempt

61] What is the mother of industry

62] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

63] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

64] Plain dealing is best

65] You can’t clap with one hand

66] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

67] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

68] Exchange is no robbery

69] It is not work that kills but worry

70] One man’s loss is another’s gain

71] Ill news comes unsent for.

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

73] Fish and guests smell in three days

74] Words are but wind

75] Youth will have its course.

76] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

77] It is no use crying over spilt milk

78] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

79] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

80] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

81] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

82] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

83] Circumstances alter cases

84] The best is often the enemy of the good

85] A jack of all traders is master of none

86] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

87] Things are only worth one makes them worth

88] Every flow must have its ebb

89] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

90] It is useless to flog a dead horse

91] Without luck, it is better not to be born

92] Knowledge is power

93] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

94] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

95] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

96] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

97] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

98] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

99] There is no blindness like ignorance

100] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.