Famous Proverbs

1] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

2] Our own opinion is never wrong

3] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

4] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

5] The absent party is always to blame.

6] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

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

8] Men are not to be measured in inches

9] Love your friend with his fault

10] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

11] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

12] Fair without, false within

13] Big fish eat little fish

14] After a storm comes a calm

15] Prove your friend ere you have need

16] He knows the water best who has waded through it

17] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

18] The best go first

19] Enough is as good as a feast

20] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

21] A learned man has always riches in himself

22] Rich folk have many friends

23] A good tongue is a good weapon

24] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

25] Boys will be boys

26] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

27] First impressions are half the battle

28] Life is short and time is swift

29] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

30] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

31] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

32] III counsel mars all

33] Many a true word is spoken in jest

34] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

35] An angry man is not fit to pray

36] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

37] Jesters do oft prove prophets

38] All heiresses are beautiful.

39] Virtue carries a lean purse

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

41] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

42] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

43] He thinks not well that thinks not again

44] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

45] Grief pent up will break the heart

46] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

47] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

48] Necessity is a powerful weapon

49] Better ask the way than go astray

50] What cannot gold do?

51] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

52] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

53] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

54] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

55] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

56] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

57] Lend your money and lose a friend

58] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

59] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

60] The road to hell is paved with good action

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

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

63] It takes a wise man to be a fool

64] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

65] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

66] No hair so small but has his shadow

67] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

68] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

69] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

70] No cross, no crown

71] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

72] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

73] Love me, love the crows on my roof

74] Better sit still than rise and fall

75] Variety is the spice of life

76] Beware of him who makes thee presents

77] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

78] Money is the sinews of war

79] Plain dealing is best

80] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

81] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

82] There is nothing like being on the safe side

83] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

84] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

85] Little by little and bit by bit.

86] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

87] Covetousness brings nothing home

88] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

89] There is no rose without a thorn

90] One is what one eats

91] Advise none to marry or to go to war

92] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

93] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

94] Friendship should not be all on one side

95] Laws were made to be broke

96] Money is the root of all evil

97] Every Jack must have his Jill

98] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

99] Take away fuel, take away flame

100] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good