Famous Proverbs

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

2] There’s always room at the top

3] Dog does not eat dog

4] History repeats itself

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

6] One is not smelt where all stink

7] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

8] He knows which side his bread is buttered

9] First come, first served

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

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

12] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

13] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

14] Take heed is a fair thing

15] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

16] Prospect is often better than possession

17] There’s a black sheep in every flock

18] Too much cunning undoes

19] Great minds think alike

20] Bear with evil and expect good

21] A fool and his money are soon parted

22] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

23] Covetousness is the root of all evil

24] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

25] Cowards die many times before their deaths

26] Hasty work, double work,

27] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

28] Small is the seed of every greatness

29] An old dog barks not in vain

30] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

31] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

32] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

33] A bad padlock invites a picklock

34] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

35] A mouse may help a lion

36] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

37] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

38] The king can do no wrong

39] Better an open enemy than a false friend

40] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

41] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

42] Choose thy company before thy drink

43] Good wine needs no bush

44] You cannot unscramble eggs

45] The money you refuse will never do you good

46] An old fox is not easily snared

47] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

48] Many dishes make many diseases

49] There is no rose without a thorn

50] Lend never that thing you needed most

51] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

52] All good things must come to an end

53] He that does most at once, does least

54] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

55] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

56] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

57] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

58] Who greases his way travels easily

59] Past cure, past care

60] Vice makes virtue shine

61] Where there’s muck, there’s money

62] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

63] It is not every question that deserves an answer

64] He that speaks well, flights well

65] Money is power

66] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

67] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

68] Everything comes to him who waits

69] Fair face, foul heart

70] Better bend than break

71] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

72] Custom reconciles us to everything

73] The devil is not as black as he is painted

74] There are more ways to the wood than one.

75] A little help is worth a deal of pity

76] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

77] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

78] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

79] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

80] Friendship should not be all on one side

81] Light burden I heavy if far borne

82] An egg thief will become a camel thief

83] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

84] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

85] The dog is a lion in his own house

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

87] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

88] Easier said than done

89] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

90] A good husband makes a good wife

91] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

92] Walls have ears

93] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

94] Custom reconciles us to everything

95] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

96] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

97] We live laws, not by examples

98] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

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

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