Famous Proverbs

1] Necessity is mother of invention

2] Fish and guests smell in three days

3] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

4] Live and Learn

5] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

6] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

7] There are more men threatened than stricken

8] A parrot will only say what it is taught

9] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

10] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

11] There are more men threatened than stricken

12] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

13] The wish is father to the thought

14] Knowledge is power

15] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

16] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

17] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

18] Small is beautiful

19] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

20] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

21] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

22] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

23] One reason is as good as fifty

24] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

25] The best of men are but men at best.

26] Everyone to his taste

27] Go not to hell for company

28] Good words are worth much and cost little

29] Slow but sure wins the race

30] Nature does nothing in vain

31] Fool’s haste is no speed

32] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

33] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

34] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

35] Pardon makes offenders

36] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

37] The longest night will have an end

38] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

39] He laughs best who laughs last

40] The early man ever borrows from the late man

41] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

42] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

43] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

44] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

45] Will is the cause of woe

46] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

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

48] Threatened folk live long

49] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

50] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

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

52] In wine there is truth

53] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

54] The cowl does not make the monk.

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

56] Love conquers all

57] Do as you would be done by

58] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

59] Nothing comes from nothing

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

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

62] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

63] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

64] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

65] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

66] He who sows, trusts in God

67] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

68] Life means strife

69] Morning dreams come true

70] Don’t tell tales out of school

71] The voice is the best music

72] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

73] Praises fill not the belly

74] A good name is better than riches

75] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

76] Early sow, early mow

77] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

78] Wine is the best broom for trouble

79] By his deeds we know a man

80] It takes two to make a quarrel

81] Bear and forbear

82] Let us do evil that good may come

83] Wishes can never fill a sack

84] Love conquers all

85] There is many a true word spoken in jest

86] A good beginning makes a good ending.

87] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

88] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

89] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

90] We are all Adam’s children

91] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

92] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

93] Silence never makes mistakes

94] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

95] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

96] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

97] It takes all sorts to make a world

98] Opportunity makes the thief

99] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

100] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.