Famous Proverbs

1] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

2] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

3] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

4] Every groom is a king at home

5] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

6] Put not the bucket too often in the well

7] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

8] Divide and rule

9] Strength grows stronger by being tried

10] All our pomp the earth covers

11] There is safety in numbers

12] Mirth without measure is madness

13] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

14] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

15] Dirty linen should be washed at home

16] Better to be safe than sorry.

17] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

18] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

19] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

20] Idle folks lack no excuses

21] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

22] How forceful are right words

23] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

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

25] Every Jack must have his Jill

26] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

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

28] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

29] Keep something for a rainy day

30] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

31] Love will go through stone walls

32] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

33] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

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

35] Take away fuel, take away flame

36] Beggars must not be choosers

37] Weak things united become strong

38] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

39] One may change the place but not the mind.

40] Charity excuseth not cheating.

41] No land without stones, or meat without bones

42] Let like mate with like

43] Master easy, servant slack

44] The receiver is as bad as the thief

45] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

46] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

47] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

48] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

49] A useful trade is a mine of gold

50] In doing we learn.

51] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

52] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

53] They brag most who can do least

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

55] We are all Adam’s children

56] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

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

58] Home is where the heart is

59] Death does not recognize strength

60] The greatest talkers are the least doers

61] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

62] The goat must browse where she is tied

63] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

64] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

65] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

66] Good words are worth much and cost little

67] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

68] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

69] He may find fault that cannot mend

70] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

71] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

72] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

73] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

74] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

75] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

76] All’s fair in love and war

77] Trust not the many-minded populace

78] Lovers are madmen

79] Fish and guests smell in three days

80] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

81] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

82] Cowards die many times before their deaths

83] Make hay while the sun shines

84] He that can stay. Obtains

85] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

86] An honest good look covers many faults.

87] The early bird catches the worm

88] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

89] How forceful are right words

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

91] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

92] Care is no cure

93] Paddle your own canoe

94] A little learning is dangerous thing

95] An empty sack cannot stand upright

96] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

97] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

98] There is no place like home

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

100] Every may be has a may not be