Famous Proverbs

1] He who teaches learns

2] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

3] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

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

5] One kindness is the price of another

6] First think, and then speak

7] Nothing is so certain as death

8] Like master, like man

9] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

10] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

11] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

12] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

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

14] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

15] He who touches pitch will be defiled

16] No day so clear but has dark clouds

17] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

18] No man fears what he has seen grow

19] Lose a leg rather than a life

20] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

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

22] Needs must when the devil drives

23] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

24] Friendship should not be all on one

25] Cleanliness is next to godliness

26] There is no blindness like ignorance

27] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

28] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

29] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

30] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

31] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

32] Facts are stubborn things

33] Rust wastes more than use

34] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

35] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

36] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

37] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

38] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

39] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

40] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

41] Better late than never

42] We don’t get something for nothing

43] Good fame is better than a good face

44] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

45] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

46] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

47] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

48] Numbers overcome the brave

49] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

50] He who serves is not free

51] That which is easily done is soon believed

52] Half an egg is better than empty shell

53] Where there is no trust there is no love

54] If you play with fire you get burnt

55] Well begun is half done.

56] Every man has his faults

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

58] What’s done is done

59] Honesty is ill to thrive by

60] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

61] Little wealth, little care

62] Lucky men need no counsel

63] Might knows no right

64] He may find fault that cannot mend

65] Mere wishes are silly fishes

66] More than enough is too much

67] Novelty always appears handsome

68] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

69] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

70] In indecision itself, grief is present.

71] Children should be seen and not heard

72] It is never too late to mend

73] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

74] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

75] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

76] Extremes meet

77] Advise none to marry or to go to war

78] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

79] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

80] Stolen goods never thrive

81] Hard cases make bad law

82] Business is business

83] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

84] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

85] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

86] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

87] A good tongue is a good weapon

88] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

89] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

90] No flying without wings.

91] Intimacy lessens fame

92] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

93] Covetousness breaks the sack

94] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

95] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

96] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

97] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

98] Better be a fool than a knave

99] An oak is not felled at one stroke

100] Laws were made to be broke