Famous Proverbs

1] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

2] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

3] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

4] Don’t take your harp to the party

5] Don’t cry stinking fish

6] Respect is greater from a distance

7] Needs must when the evil drives

8] He knows which side his bread is buttered

9] Gluttony kills more than the sword

10] History repeats itself

11] Wake not a sleeping lion

12] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

13] Almost’ never killed a fly.

14] Erring is not heating

15] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

16] Better children weep than old men

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

18] Truth conquers all things

19] A good heart conquers ill fortune

20] Christmas comes but once a year

21] Home is where the heart is

22] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

23] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

24] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

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

26] Our own opinion is never wrong

27] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

28] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

29] Great gain makes easy work

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

31] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

32] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

33] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

34] You cannot make a crab walk straight

35] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

36] Four eyes see better than two.

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

38] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

39] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

40] There is no smoke without fire

41] When one door shuts, another opens

42] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

43] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

44] No day so clear but has dark clouds

45] Accidents will happen

46] Idle folks have the least leisure

47] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

48] Like will to like

49] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

50] Best is cheapest

51] The more wicked, the more lucky

52] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

53] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

54] Soft fire makes sweet malt

55] Coming events cast their shadows before

56] Live and let live

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

58] A good wife is a good prize

59] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

60] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

61] He that is absent is soon forgotten

62] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

63] Give and spend, and God will send

64] Her that is down need fear no fall

65] At a good bargain thinks twice

66] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

67] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

68] Love conquers all

69] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

70] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

71] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

72] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

73] Money is the root of all evil

74] Laws were made to be broke

75] Self do, self have

76] There is nothing permanent except change

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

78] Don’t tell tales out of school

79] Hope keeps man alive

80] Like will to like

81] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

82] Boys will be boys

83] Every shoe fits not every foot

84] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

85] We are all Adam’s children

86] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

87] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

88] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

89] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

90] A good conscience is a soft pillow

91] Work expands so as to fill the time available

92] Failure teaches success

93] Not even Hercules could contend against two

94] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

95] The golden age was never the present age

96] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

97] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

98] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

99] He that obey cannot command

100] Fields have eyes and woods have ears