Famous Proverbs

1] Friendship should not be all on one side

2] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

3] God sends cold after Clothes

4] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

5] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

6] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

7] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

8] If you play with fire you get burnt

9] There is death in the pot.

10] As you brew, so shall you drink.

11] Double charge will rive a cannon

12] Covetousness brings nothing home

13] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

14] First impressions are half the battle

15] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

16] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

17] Hard cases make bad law

18] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

19] No day so clear but has dark clouds

20] Be still and have thy will

21] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

22] Whatever man has done, man can do

23] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

24] Every why has a wherefore

25] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

26] It is misery enough to have once been happy

27] Better to wear out than rust out

28] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

29] Union (or Unity) is strength

30] Fair face, foul heart

31] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

32] A good drink makes the old young

33] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

34] Anger managers everything badly.

35] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

36] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

37] He that has plenty of goods will have more

38] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

39] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

40] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

41] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

42] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

43] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

44] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

45] No garden without its weeds.

46] Like master, like man

47] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

48] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

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

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

51] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

52] Praise no man till he is dead.

53] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

54] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

55] A fault confessed is half redressed

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

57] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

58] Names are debts

59] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

60] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

61] Misfortune makes foes of friends

62] Every may be has a may not be

63] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

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

65] Do not wear out your welcome

66] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

67] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

68] Those near the temple deride the gods

69] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

70] Better to wear out than rust out

71] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

72] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

73] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

74] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

75] He who demands does not command

76] One is not smelt where all stink

77] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

78] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

79] A good husband makes a good wife

80] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

81] It will be the same a hundred years hence

82] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

83] Fish and guests smell in three days

84] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

85] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

86] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

87] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

88] Expectation is better than realisation

89] Gold may be bought too dear

90] A man can do no more than he can

91] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

92] He that wants health wants all

93] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

94] The biter is sometimes bit

95] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

96] There is no tree but bears some fruit

97] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

98] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

99] He who wills the end, Wills the means

100] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces