Famous Proverbs

1] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

2] What everybody says must be true

3] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

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

5] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

6] A man with no hands is given a ring.

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

8] Words and feathers the wind carries away

9] Evil to him who evil thinks.

10] Truth is god’s daughter

11] Live and let live

12] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

13] He is wise who looks ahead

14] Better the last smile than the first laugh

15] A good servant must have good wages

16] Prospect is often better than possession

17] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

18] A bad workman always blames his tools

19] As you brew, so shall you drink.

20] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

21] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

22] Shrouds have no pockets

23] A piece of churchyard fits every body

24] No hair so small but has his shadow

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

26] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

27] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

28] When the cat is away, the mice will play

29] Learning is the eye of the mind

30] Often and little eating makes a man fat

31] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

32] Business is business

33] Wrong has no warrant

34] Much law but little justice

35] Anger without power is folly

36] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

37] God is always on the side of the big battalions

38] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

39] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

40] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

41] Of evil manners, spring good laws

42] More than enough is too much

43] Better be safe than sorry

44] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

45] He who wills the end, Wills the means

46] A mouse may help a lion

47] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

48] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

49] Appearances are deceptive

50] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

51] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

52] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

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

54] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

55] The pot calls the kettle black

56] Sooner begun, sooner done

57] A change is as good as rest

58] Life begins only in success

59] Error cannot be defended but by error

60] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

61] Change brings life

62] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

63] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

64] Experience must be bought

65] Dirty linen should be washed at home

66] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

67] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

68] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

69] We live by laws, not by examples

70] Kind hearts are more than coronets

71] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

72] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

73] Let bygones be bygones

74] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

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

76] Fish begins to stink at the head

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

78] No man is indispensable

79] The envious man shall never want woe

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

81] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

82] Wrong has no warrant

83] One man’s loss is another’s gain

84] A good tongue is a good weapon

85] The hole calls the thief

86] Enough is as good as a feast

87] He that pities another remembers himself

88] Better be a fool than a knave

89] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

90] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

91] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

92] No man is born wise or learned

93] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

94] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

95] Of one ill come many

96] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

97] Actions speak louder than words

98] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

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

100] There are more men threatened than stricken