Famous Proverbs

1] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

2] All is fair in love and war

3] It is as natural to die as to be born

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

5] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

6] Of one ill come many

7] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

8] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

9] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

10] Fortune is blind

11] Enough is as good as a feast

12] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

13] Soon hot, soon cold

14] A little body often harbours a great soul

15] An angry man is not fit to pray

16] Experience must be bought

17] Love and business teach eloquence

18] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

19] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

20] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

21] Hope keeps man alive

22] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

23] One potter envies another

24] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

25] See which way the cat jumps

26] No flying without wings.

27] God is a sure paymaster

28] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

29] Rust wastes more than use

30] Necessity is a powerful weapon

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

32] Acorns were good till bread was found

33] Either mend or end

34] Patience is a virtue

35] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

36] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

37] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

38] Might overcome right.

39] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

40] Better are small fish than an empty dish

41] Nature does nothing in vain

42] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

43] A closed mouth catches no files

44] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

45] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

46] Ill news comes unsent for.

47] Asking costs little

48] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

49] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

50] He is an ill husband who is not missed

51] A good heart cannot lie.

52] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

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

54] Nature will have her course

55] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

56] The good intention excuses the bad action

57] One kindness is the price of another

58] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

59] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

60] What is worse than ill luck?

61] Good clothes open all doors

62] Nature abhors a vacuum

63] If today will not, tomorrow may

64] Wise men do not argue with idiots

65] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

66] Confess and be hanged

67] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

68] Fortune favours fools

69] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

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

71] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

72] Two blacks do not make a white

73] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

74] An open door may tempt a saint

75] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

76] A parrot will only say what it is taught

77] First come, first served

78] First think, and then speak

79] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

80] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

81] Union is strength.

82] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

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

84] He who last, laughs longest.

85] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

86] Pleasing ware is half sold

87] The tailor makes the man

88] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

89] Every oak has been an acorn

90] Waste not, want not

91] Marriage makes or mars a man

92] Weeds need no sowing

93] All’s fish that comes to the net

94] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

95] Manners make the man

96] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

97] Wrong never comes right

98] The axe falls on a straight tree first

99] You never know what you can do till you try

100] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage