Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

2] Custom makes all things easy

3] Blood will have blood

4] One can’t help many, but many can help one

5] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

6] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

7] Might knows no right

8] Accidents will happen

9] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

10] The poor suffer all the wrong

11] A man’s mother is his other God

12] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

13] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

14] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

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

16] Curiosity killed the cat.

17] A healthy man is a successful man

18] A good wife makes a good husband

19] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

20] Great actions speak minds

21] Never too late to learn

22] Dirty linen should be washed at home

23] It is not work that kills but worry

24] Step by step the ladder is ascended

25] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

26] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

27] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

28] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

29] A cat may look at a king

30] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

31] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

32] Everything must have a beginning

33] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

34] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

35] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

36] Never too late to learn

37] Delays are not denials

38] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

39] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

40] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

41] Do as say, not as I do

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

43] When you do not know what to do – wait.

44] Borrowed garments never fit well

45] The greatest step is that out of doors

46] Of evil manners, spring good laws

47] Praises fill not the belly

48] We have all been once in our life

49] Call a spade a spade

50] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

51] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

52] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

53] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

54] Time lost cannot be recalled

55] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

56] From word to deed is a great space

57] First think, and then speak

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

59] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

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

61] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

62] A fault confessed is half redressed

63] He who considers too much will perform little.

64] He that repairs not a part, builds all

65] Boys will be boys

66] Everything comes to him who waits

67] Change of pasture makes fat calves

68] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

69] You never know your luck

70] Excessive happiness produces pain

71] Keep something for a rainy day

72] Nature will have her course

73] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

74] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

75] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

76] Wife and Children are bills of charges

77] Walls have ears

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

79] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

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

81] He stands not surely that never slips

82] A good name is better than riches

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

84] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

85] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

86] He who comes first, grinds first.

87] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

88] There is a great difference between words and deeds

89] The longest journey starts with a single step

90] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

91] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

92] Let not your tongue run at rover

93] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

94] Fingers were made before forks

95] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

96] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

97] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

98] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

99] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

100] A little learning is dangerous thing