Famous Proverbs

1] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

2] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

3] Cleanliness is next to godliness

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

5] Every law has a loophole

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

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

8] Truth is stranger than fiction

9] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

10] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

11] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

12] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

13] A rolling stone gathers no moss

14] None but the brave deserves the fair

15] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

16] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

17] He that cannot ask, cannot live

18] Judge not of men and things at first sight

19] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

20] Trust not the many-minded populace

21] Corn him well and he will work better

22] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

23] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

24] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

25] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

26] Everything is good in its season

27] You can’t win them all

28] A good name is better than riches

29] Every man must carry his own cross

30] A man’s wealth is his enemy

31] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

32] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

33] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

34] Every groom is a king at home

35] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

36] A little learning is dangerous thing

37] Ignorance is the peace of life

38] A fault confessed is half redressed

39] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

40] Cleanliness is next to godliness

41] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

42] One today is worth two tomorrows

43] He who demands does not command

44] Evil to him who evil thinks.

45] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

46] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

47] Every dog has his day

48] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

49] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

50] Much law but little justice

51] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

52] Poverty is the mother of crime

53] Don’t put the cart before the horse

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

55] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

56] True doctrines require no miracles

57] He that repairs not a part, builds all

58] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

59] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

60] No pain, no cure

61] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

62] Much babbling is not without offence

63] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

64] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

65] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

66] Share and share alike

67] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

68] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

69] An egg thief will become a camel thief

70] A black hen lays a white egg

71] A man can do no more than he can

72] The borrower is servant to the lender

73] All is vanity.

74] Morning dreams come true

75] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

76] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

77] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

78] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

79] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

80] A rich man can do nothing wrong

81] Be careful to whom you give

82] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

83] Nothing is given so freely as advice

84] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

85] There is no place like home

86] Now is now, and then was then

87] No road is long with good company

88] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

89] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

90] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

91] A hungry man smells meat afar off

92] Silence is golden

93] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

94] The fairest silk is soonest stained

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

96] Half a loaf is better than do bread

97] Every commodity has its discommodity

98] Children and fools cannot lie.

99] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

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