Famous Proverbs

1] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

2] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

3] Man does what he can, and God what he will

4] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

5] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

6] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

7] All things for not all persons

8] Diligence is the mother of good luck

9] Children and fools have merry lives

10] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

11] Too much cunning undoes

12] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

13] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

14] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

15] Do as say, not as I do

16] An old horse knows the route

17] Big words seldom go with good deeds

18] He laughs best who laughs last

19] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

20] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

21] A good conscience is a sure card

22] Company in misery makes it light

23] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

24] Success has many friends

25] Innocence is no protection

26] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

27] They are rich who have true friends

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

29] Do not triumph before the victory

30] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

31] Give and take is fair play

32] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

33] Life means strife

34] Work won’t kill but worry will.

35] Better sit still than rise and fall

36] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

37] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

38] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

39] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

40] Judge not the tree by its bark

41] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

42] Ignorance is the peace of life

43] There is nothing that costs less than civility

44] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

45] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

46] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

47] The longest way round is the shortest way home

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

49] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

50] Every medal has two sides

51] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

52] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

53] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

54] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

55] All is vanity.

56] Precepts may lead but examples draw

57] Might is right

58] You can’t take it with you when you die

59] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

60] There’s no great loss without some gain

61] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

62] What cannot gold do?

63] Kind hearts are more than coronets

64] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

65] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

66] Man does what he can, and God what he will

67] Lavishness is not generosity

68] Alms never make poor

69] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

70] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

71] The greatest talkers are the least doers

72] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

73] Hope is the poor man’s bread

74] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

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

76] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

77] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

78] A jest breaks no bones

79] Wink at small faults

80] Hunger breaks stone walls

81] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

82] Much meat, much malady

83] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

84] All are not saints that go to church

85] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

86] Familiarity breeds contempt

87] Think of ease, but work on.

88] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

89] Nothing comes from nothing

90] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

91] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

92] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

93] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

94] All things are possible with god

95] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

96] One master in a house is enough

97] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

98] Remember, you are but a man

99] Praises fill not the belly

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