Famous Proverbs

1] Out of sight, out of mind

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

3] Distance lends enchantment to the view

4] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

5] Like mistress, like maid

6] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

7] Liars should have good memories

8] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

9] A good name is sooner lost than won

10] Example is the greatest of all seducers

11] Nearest the heart comes out first

12] A fool always rushes to the fore.

13] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

14] It is a great victory that comes without blood

15] Parents are patterns

16] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

17] A good paymaster never wants workmen

18] You must grin and bear it

19] No road is long with good company

20] Too much cunning undoes

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

22] He that has good money, gives few alms

23] A good face is a letter of recommendation

24] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

25] Words fly, writings remain

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

27] Every man praises his own wares

28] Bare walls make giddy housewives

29] Pursuits become habits

30] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

31] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

32] Give and spend, and God will send

33] Big fish eat little fish

34] There are two sides to every question

35] Each day brings its own bread

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

37] Beauty is but skin-deep

38] A wise man hears one word and understands two

39] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

40] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

41] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

42] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

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

44] Sooner begun, sooner done

45] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

46] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

47] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

48] We live laws, not by examples

49] Least said, soonest mended

50] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

51] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

52] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

53] What has been, may be

54] Sickness shows us what we are

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

56] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

57] New brooms sweep clean

58] Bread is the staff of life.

59] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

60] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

61] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

62] An obedient wife commands her husband

63] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

64] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

65] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

66] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

67] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

68] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

69] The best things carried to excess are wrong

70] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

71] Tomorrow never comes

72] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

73] Still waters run deep

74] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

75] There’s a black sheep in every flock

76] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

77] Weak things united become strong

78] The greatest talkers are the least doers

79] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

80] Even reckoning makes long friends

81] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

82] Repentance is a bitter physic

83] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

84] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

85] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

86] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

87] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

88] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

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

90] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

91] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

92] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

93] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

94] Beware of a silent man and still water

95] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

96] More than enough is too much

97] As you bake, so shall you eat.

98] Out of debt, out of danger

99] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

100] The bread never falls but on its buttered side