Famous Proverbs

1] In haste is error

2] First creep, then walk

3] Misfortunes never come singly

4] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

5] We don’t get something for nothing

6] If you play with fire you get burnt

7] The lion had need of the mouse

8] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

9] He that speaks well, flights well

10] There are two sides to every question

11] Anger managers everything badly.

12] What must be must be

13] Death is the grand leveler

14] There is no redemption from hell

15] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

16] One hand washes the other

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

18] There are more men threatened than stricken

19] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

20] He stands not surely that never slips

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

22] When angry, count a hundred

23] All is fair in love and war

24] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

25] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

26] Children speak only words they have heard.

27] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

28] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

29] Patience is the remedy of the world

30] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

31] Poverty is the mother of crime

32] So many countries, so many customs

33] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

34] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

35] Better bend than break

36] He knows which side his bread is buttered

37] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

38] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

39] All roads lead to Rome

40] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

41] Take away fuel, take away flame

42] Health is better than wealth

43] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

44] Novelty always appears handsome

45] After the extreme of cold comes spring

46] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

47] A black hen lays a white egg

48] A friend is easier lost than found

49] Creditors have better memories than debtors

50] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

51] Dogs bark as they are bred.

52] Health without money is half an ague

53] All meat pleases not all mouths

54] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

55] That which proves too much proves nothing

56] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

57] No like is the same.

58] Out of sight, out of mind

59] Do not limp before the lame

60] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

61] Work expands so as to fill the time available

62] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

63] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

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

65] Nature abhors a vacuum

66] Every may be has a may not be

67] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

68] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

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

70] He that has an ill name is half hanged

71] A man’s wealth is his enemy

72] It takes two to make a quarrel

73] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

74] Garbage in, garbage out

75] Handsome is as handsome does

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

77] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

78] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

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

80] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

81] Necessity is a powerful weapon

82] Hunger is the best sauce

83] No garden without its weeds.

84] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

85] Live and Learn

86] Sow thin and mow thin

87] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

88] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

89] A learned man has always riches in himself

90] He who serves is not free

91] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

92] One kindness is the price of another

93] Poor men’s words have little weight

94] Lookers-on see more than players

95] Great trees keep down the little ones

96] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

97] Forgive and forget

98] Mirth is the sugar of life

99] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

100] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue