Famous Proverbs

1] Poor men’s words have little weight

2] Open confession is good for the soul

3] It is more blessed to give than to receive

4] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

5] There is no fool like an old fool

6] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

7] First think, and then speak

8] Choose thy company before thy drink

9] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

10] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

11] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

12] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

13] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

14] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

15] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

16] He who sows, trusts in God

17] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

18] You can’t win them all

19] Children speak only words they have heard.

20] Money is power

21] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

22] Long life has long misery

23] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

24] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

25] The hand that gives, gathers

26] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

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

28] A good Conscience is the best divinity

29] Light grows the burden which is well borne

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

31] He that pities another remembers himself

32] Two wrongs do not make a right

33] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

34] He mediates revenge who least complains.

35] He who pays the piper calls the tune

36] Slow but sure wins the race

37] The last suitor wins the maid

38] First come, first served

39] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

40] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

41] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

42] God’s lambs will play.

43] The tide must be taken when it comes

44] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

45] Children and fools have merry lives

46] The greatest talkers are the least doers

47] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

48] Don’t play with fire

49] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

50] Business is business

51] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

52] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

53] Good counsel never comes amiss

54] Every man is his own worst enemy

55] Moderation in all things

56] A light purse makes a heavy heart

57] All things that great men do are well done

58] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

59] Bread is the staff of life.

60] Might knows no right

61] There is a great difference between words and deeds

62] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

63] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

64] The end crowns the work.

65] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

66] The best of men are but men at best.

67] Health and wealth create beauty

68] Despair gives courage to a coward

69] Work expands so as to fill the time available

70] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

71] It’s a long lane that has no turning

72] The more wicked, the more lucky

73] A good name is better than riches

74] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

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

76] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

77] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

78] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

79] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

80] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

81] Too long burden makes weary bones

82] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

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

84] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

85] The owl thinks her own young fairest

86] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

87] He who demands does not command

88] There is no royal road to learning

89] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

90] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

91] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

92] The more cost, the more honour

93] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

94] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

95] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

96] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

97] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

98] Innocence is no protection

99] Ambition makes people diligent

100] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce