Famous Proverbs

1] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

2] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

3] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

4] He that eats well should do his duty well

5] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

6] It is too late to husband when all is spent

7] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

8] New things are fair

9] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

10] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

11] Curiosity killed the cat.

12] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

13] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

14] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

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

16] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

17] An old horse knows the route

18] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

19] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

20] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

21] The longest journey starts with a single step

22] Pat any man and dust will fly

23] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

24] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

25] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

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

27] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

28] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

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

30] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

31] You can’t tell a book by its cover

32] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

33] He who demands does not command

34] Never too late to repent

35] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

36] Cowards die many times before their deaths

37] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

38] There are more ways to the wood than one.

39] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

40] Love is blind

41] Do as you would be done by

42] Frugality is the mother of virtue

43] Open confession is good for the soul

44] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

45] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

46] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

47] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

48] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

49] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

50] None can guess the jewel by the casket

51] The dog that fetches, will carry.

52] Example is better than precept

53] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

54] Who greases his way travels easily

55] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

56] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

57] Remember, you are but a man

58] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

59] The fox may grow grey, but never good

60] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

61] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

62] Where there is no might, right loses itself

63] Might is right

64] Love me, love my dog

65] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

66] From word to deed is a great space

67] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

68] The dog is a lion in his own house

69] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

70] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

71] Fools live poor to die rich

72] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

73] Time flees without a delay

74] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

75] Fortune favours fools

76] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

77] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

78] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

79] Nothing is given so freely as advice

80] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

81] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

82] You never know your luck

83] Every light has its shadow

84] Advise none to marry or to go to war

85] Too much curiosity lost paradise

86] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

87] Procrastination is the thief of time

88] One reason is as good as fifty

89] It will be the same a hundred years hence

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

91] No garden without its weeds.

92] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

93] A fault once denied is twice committed

94] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

95] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

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

97] Health without money is half an ague

98] The receiver is as bad as the thief

99] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

100] Ill luck is good for something