Famous Proverbs

1] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

2] First come, first served

3] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

4] There is a great difference between words and deeds

5] Patient waiters are no losers

6] Time and tide wait for no man

7] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

8] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

9] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

10] A golden key opens every door

11] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

12] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

13] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

14] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

15] Business is business

16] An old dog barks not in vain

17] New lords, new laws

18] Silence and thinking can no man offend

19] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

20] Penny wise, pound foolish

21] Children and fools cannot lie.

22] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

23] It costs more to do ill than to do well

24] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

25] Too long burden makes weary bones

26] Make haste slowly

27] Men make houses, women make homes

28] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

29] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

30] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

31] We shall lie all alike in our graves

32] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

33] Love cannot be compelled

34] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

35] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

36] Change brings life

37] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

38] No man is a hero to his valet

39] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

40] Money talks

41] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

42] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

43] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

44] What will not money do?

45] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

46] Ignorance is the peace of life

47] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

48] Grin and bear it

49] Every Jack must have his Jill

50] Health is not value till sickness comes

51] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

52] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

53] A true friend is forever a friend

54] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

55] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

56] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

57] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

58] Nature will have her course

59] Crows are all completely black

60] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

61] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

62] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

63] No man is his craft’s master the first day

64] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

65] Weak things united become strong

66] Poverty is the mother of crime

67] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

68] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

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

70] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

71] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

72] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

73] Stolen sweets are sweeter

74] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

75] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

76] Shrouds have no pockets

77] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

78] Ill news comes unsent for.

79] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

80] Slow help is no help

81] Suffering does not manifest itself

82] Better eye sore than al blind

83] Money refused loses its brightness

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

85] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

86] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

87] A little is better than none

88] Nature surpasses art

89] III counsel mars all

90] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

91] There’s always room at the top

92] Do unto others as they should do unto you

93] Old cattle breed not

94] Custom reconciles us to everything

95] Will is the cause of woe

96] Nearest the heart comes out first

97] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

98] The absent saint gets no candle

99] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

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