Famous Proverbs

1] A good Conscience is the best divinity

2] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

3] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

4] Love delights in praise

5] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

6] Man does what he can, and God what he will

7] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

8] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

9] He mediates revenge who least complains.

10] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

11] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

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

13] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

14] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

15] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

16] Standing pools gather fifth

17] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

18] Crowns have cares

19] Too long burden makes weary bones

20] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

21] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

22] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

23] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

24] Well done is better than well said

25] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

26] Do not kick against the pricks

27] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

28] Spread the table, and contention will cease

29] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

30] Of evil manners, spring good laws

31] A good paymaster never wants workmen

32] It costs more to do ill than to do well

33] Children and fools cannot lie.

34] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

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

36] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

37] Water is the king of food

38] Be still and have thy will

39] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

40] Better at home than a mile from it

41] Man punishes the action but God the intention

42] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

43] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

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

45] Adam’s ale is the best brew

46] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

47] None so busy as those who do nothing.

48] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

49] The receiver is as bad as the thief

50] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

51] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

52] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

53] The tailor makes the man

54] Good words are worth much and cost little

55] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

56] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

57] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

58] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

59] True doctrines require no miracles

60] Garbage in, garbage out

61] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

62] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

63] He who comes first, grinds first.

64] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

65] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

66] Children and chickens must be always picking

67] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

68] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

69] The faulty stands on his guard

70] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

71] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

72] Slow but sure wins the race

73] Wine is the best broom for trouble

74] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

75] Double charge will rive a cannon

76] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

77] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

78] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

79] Harp not for ever on the same string

80] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

81] One good turn deserves another

82] Men make houses, women make homes

83] Fortune is blind

84] The garment worn determines how one is served

85] An egg thief will become a camel thief

86] Good hand, good hire

87] Silence and thinking can no man offend

88] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

89] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

90] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

91] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

92] To teach is to learn twice over

93] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

94] Charity excuseth not cheating.

95] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

96] Experience is the mother of wisdom

97] Bad news travels fast

98] Common fame is seldom to blame

99] Idleness is the root of all evil

100] You can’t take it with you when you die