Famous Proverbs

1] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

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

3] What has been, may be

4] Ill news comes unsent for.

5] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

6] You cannot have your cake and eat it

7] Wisdom is better than strength

8] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

9] Children and fools have merry lives

10] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

11] All glory comes from daring to begin

12] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

13] What is the mother of industry

14] After the extreme of cold comes spring

15] Men are known by the company they keep.

16] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

17] You must grin and bear it

18] Look on the bright side

19] Better unborn than untaught

20] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

21] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

22] All is vanity.

23] Mirth is the sugar of life

24] Fish begins to stink at the head

25] Where there’s muck, there’s money

26] Help a lame dog over a stile

27] Kindness lies in one side of the house

28] Money is the sinews of war

29] Marriage makes or mars a man

30] First things first

31] Hunger is the best sauce

32] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

33] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

34] He that is born a fool is never cured

35] The coward threatens only when he is safe

36] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

37] Easy come, easy go

38] Gifts blind the eyes.

39] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

40] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

41] Repentance comes too late

42] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

43] An egg thief will become a camel thief

44] No cross, no crown

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

46] Art improves Nature

47] Help a lame dog over a stile

48] An empty sack cannot stand upright

49] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

50] Crime does not pay

51] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

52] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

53] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

54] He that talks much, errs much

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

56] Weak things united become strong

57] A joke’s a very serious thing

58] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

59] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

60] Like mother, like daughter

61] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

62] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

63] Put out your tubs when it is raining

64] Dreams go by contraries

65] A good example is the best sermon

66] An army marches on its stomach

67] He who does no good, does evil enough

68] Names are debts

69] Water is the king of food

70] The tongue talks at the heads cost

71] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

72] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

73] He who owes is in all the wrong

74] A heavy purse makes a light heart

75] What the king wills, that the law wills

76] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

77] He that knows little often repeats it

78] Where there is whispering there is lying

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

80] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

81] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

82] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

83] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

84] Money is the sinews of war

85] Lucky men need no counsel

86] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

87] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

88] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

89] Four eyes see better than two.

90] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

91] First think, and then speak

92] All things are difficult before they are easy

93] Don’t ride the high horse

94] Like mistress, like maid

95] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

96] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

97] A man’s studies pass in to his character

98] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

99] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

100] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better