Famous Proverbs

1] Heaven helps those who help themselves

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

3] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

4] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

5] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

6] Beauty is but skin-deep

7] Too much curiosity lost paradise

8] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

9] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

10] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

11] Silence is golden

12] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

13] Good to begin well, better to end well.

14] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

15] Homo is a common name to all men.

16] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

17] Extremity of right is wrong

18] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

19] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

20] In fair weather prepare for foul

21] Look on the bright side

22] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

23] By his deeds we know a man

24] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

25] Money talks

26] One barber shaves another gratis

27] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

28] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

29] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

30] The company makes the feast

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

32] A crust is better than no bread.

33] First come, first served

34] If the cap fits, wear it

35] No man is a hero to his valet

36] There is no tree but bears some fruit

37] Words fly, writings remain

38] Wine is the best broom for trouble

39] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

40] We shall lie all alike in our graves

41] There is no garden without its weeds

42] He that burns most, shines most

43] A good conscience is a constant feast

44] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

45] No pains, no gains

46] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

47] Who suffers much is silent

48] Talk much end err much

49] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

50] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

51] He who excuses himself accuses himself

52] Will is the cause of woe

53] Laws were made to be broke

54] The faulty stands on his guard

55] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

56] Truth conquers all things

57] Law makers should not be law breakers

58] He who wills the end, Wills the means

59] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

60] Leave well alone

61] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

62] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

63] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

64] Rats know the ways of rats

65] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

66] Company in misery makes it light

67] Self-praise is no recommendation

68] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

69] Better are small fish than an empty dish

70] Wine unveils the words of the heart

71] He that is absent is soon forgotten

72] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

73] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

74] One must be a servant before one can be a master

75] Death alone can kill hope

76] Many words, many buffets

77] The axe falls on a straight tree first

78] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

79] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

80] You must grin and bear it

81] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

82] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

83] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

84] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

85] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

86] Good clothes open all doors

87] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

88] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

89] Tell the truth and shame the devil

90] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

91] A wise man hears one word and understands two

92] Never buy a pig in a poke

93] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

94] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

95] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

96] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

97] A rich man’s joke is always funny

98] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

99] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

100] Good fame is better than a good face