Famous Proverbs

1] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

2] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

3] God makes the back for the burden

4] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

5] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

6] Quickly come, quickly go

7] He laughs best who laughs last

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

9] The best go first

10] Far fowls have fair feather

11] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

12] Poverty is the mother of crime

13] Wife and Children are bills of charges

14] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

15] Good counsel never comes amiss

16] None but the brave deserves the fair

17] Don’t put the cart before the horse

18] Precept begins, examples accomplish

19] There is no garden without its weeds

20] Where there is peace, there is blessing

21] Suffering does not manifest itself

22] Wiles help weak folk

23] A good dog deserves a good bone

24] A good conscience is a soft pillow

25] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

26] The sun shines upon all alike.

27] Patience is the remedy of the world

28] Lookers-on see most of the game

29] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

30] Even silence may be eloquent

31] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

32] He that has no shame has no conscience

33] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

34] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

35] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

36] The labourer is worthy of his hire

37] He that lives ill, fear follows him

38] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

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

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

41] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

42] Make the best of a bad job

43] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

44] A parrot will only say what it is taught

45] Long life has long misery

46] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

47] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

48] The biter is sometimes bit

49] He would command must serve

50] Experience must be bought

51] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

52] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

53] Every man praises his own wares

54] Names and natures do often agree

55] The mean is the best

56] Variety is charming

57] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

58] Great hopes make great men

59] Respect is greater from a distance

60] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

61] The wish is father to the thought

62] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

63] The world is full of fools

64] Self do, self have

65] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

66] Every little helps

67] In my own house, I am king

68] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

69] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

70] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

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

72] Give and take is fair play

73] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

74] Revenge is sweet

75] Mercy surpasses justice

76] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

77] First impressions are the most lasting

78] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

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

80] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

81] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

82] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

83] An oak is not felled at one stroke

84] Many dishes make many diseases

85] A bribe will enter without knocking

86] New brooms sweep clean

87] Tell the truth and shame the devil

88] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

89] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

90] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

91] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

92] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

93] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

94] Truth has no need of rhetoric

95] The best things are hard to come by.

96] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

97] Every dog is a lion at home

98] The resolved mind has no cares

99] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

100] God sends cold after Clothes