Famous Proverbs

1] The righteous man sins before an open chest

2] The dog that fetches, will carry.

3] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

4] Dying is as natural as living

5] Money talks

6] Better late than never

7] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

8] A hungry man is angry man

9] A short cut is often a wrong cut

10] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

11] Practice what you preach

12] Judge not, that ye be not judged

13] Much law but little justice

14] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

15] Like breeds like

16] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

17] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

18] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

19] Choose thy company before thy drink

20] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

21] A true man and a thief think not the same

22] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

23] Master easy, servant slack

24] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

25] Fish begins to stink at the head

26] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

27] Come with the wind, got with the water

28] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

29] Divide and rule

30] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

31] One is never too old to learn

32] The best things are hard to come by.

33] Sickness shows us what we are

34] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

35] Two heads are better than one

36] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

37] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

38] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

39] Findings are keepings

40] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

41] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

42] Debt is an evil conscience

43] Don’t ride the high horse

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

45] A bad excuse is better than none at all

46] A man’s mother is his other God

47] Expectation is better than realisation

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

49] Fear of death is worse than death itself

50] It’s dogged that does it

51] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

52] Tell a lie and stick to it.

53] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

54] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

55] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

56] No honest man ever repented his honesty

57] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

58] Stolen sweets are sweeter

59] Good clothes open all doors

60] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

61] Everything in moderation.

62] Where there’s muck, there’s money

63] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

64] The more you have the more you want

65] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

66] Necessity is the mother of invention

67] Things past cannot be recalled

68] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

69] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

70] He that has plenty of goods will have more

71] A good payer is master of another’s purse

72] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

73] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

74] Many hands make light work

75] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

76] The best things are hard to come by.

77] The envious man shall never want woe

78] No good building without a good foundation.

79] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

80] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

81] Many a little makes a mickle

82] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

83] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

84] Mere wishes are silly fishes

85] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

86] It is not every question that deserves an answer

87] The absent party is always to blame.

88] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

89] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

90] Least said, soonest mended

91] Learn to walk before you run

92] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

93] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

94] A good heart conquers ill fortune

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

96] Honesty is ill to thrive by

97] He that is absent is soon forgotten

98] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

99] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

100] Take the will for the deed