Famous Proverbs

1] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

2] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

3] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

4] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

5] Call a spade a spade

6] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

7] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

8] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

9] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

10] A little impatience will spoil great plans

11] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

12] A word is enough to the wise

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

14] Every medal has its reverse

15] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

16] Much would have more

17] There is honour among thieves

18] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

19] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

20] Eat to live and not live to eat.

21] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

22] A rolling stone gathers no moss

23] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

24] Expectation is better than realisation

25] Trust is the mother of deceit

26] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

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

28] Idleness is the root of all evil

29] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

30] Plain dealing is a jewel

31] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

32] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

33] Every cloud has a silver lining

34] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

35] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

36] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

37] The darkest place is under the candlestick

38] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

39] All things require skills but an appetite

40] Haste makes waste

41] Slow help is no help

42] Time and tide wait for no man

43] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

44] Enough is as good as a feast

45] Love can find a way

46] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

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

48] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

49] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

50] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

51] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

52] No land without stones, or meat without bones

53] Forecast is better than work-hard

54] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

55] The garment worn determines how one is served

56] Four eyes see better than two.

57] The exception proves the rule

58] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

59] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

60] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

61] You cannot serve God and Mammon

62] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

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

64] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

65] The thing which is rare is dear

66] Sooner begun, sooner done

67] There is no time like the present

68] A piece of churchyard fits every body

69] He that obey cannot command

70] Good ware makes quick market

71] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

72] He that eats least eats most

73] He that promises too much means nothing

74] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

75] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

76] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

77] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

78] Love turns pimples

79] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

80] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

81] Every medal has its reverse

82] No remedy but patience

83] Wiles help weak folk

84] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

85] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

86] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

87] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

88] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

89] Old foxes want no tutors

90] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

91] Man punishes the action but God the intention

92] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

93] Lucky men need no counsel

94] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

95] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

96] Charity begins at home.

97] First creep, then walk

98] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

99] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

100] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut