Famous Proverbs

1] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

2] Good ware makes quick market

3] No remedy but patience

4] The longest journey starts with a single step

5] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

6] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

7] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

8] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

9] Big words seldom go with good deeds

10] Good clothes open all doors

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

12] Bare walls make giddy housewives

13] There’s a black sheep in every flock

14] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

15] The highest branch is not the safest roost

16] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

17] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

18] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

19] First think, and then speak

20] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

21] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

22] Speech is silver, silence is golden

23] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

24] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

25] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

26] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

27] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

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

29] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

30] Make the best of a bad bargain

31] Marriages are made in heaven

32] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

33] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

34] Bear and forbear

35] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

36] What’s done is done

37] Lose a leg rather than a life

38] Beauty opens locked doors

39] Good luck beats early rising

40] No man is a hero to his valet

41] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

42] Expectation is better than realisation

43] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

44] Don’t ride the high horse

45] The Pen is mightier than the sword

46] Every man praises his own wares

47] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

48] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

49] A little impatience will spoil great plans

50] Judge not of men and things at first sight

51] A word spoken is past recalling

52] An evil life is a kind of death.

53] Love delights in praise

54] Homo is a common name to all men.

55] New meat begets a new appetite

56] No man so good but another may be as good as he

57] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

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

59] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

60] Anger managers everything badly.

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

62] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

63] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

64] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

65] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

66] Live and Learn

67] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

68] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

69] He laughs best who laughs last

70] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

71] There is no time like the present

72] Diligence is the mother of good luck

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

74] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

75] Discontent is the first step in progress

76] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

77] The labourer is worthy of his hire

78] Silence and thinking can no man offend

79] A good friend is my nearest relation

80] A joke’s a very serious thing

81] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

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

83] Ill comes often on the back worse

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

85] Never judge from appearances

86] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

87] Little and often fills the purse

88] Human blood is all of a colour

89] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

90] Every man has his price

91] There is truth in wine

92] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

93] In wine there is truth

94] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

95] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

96] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

97] He who never was sick dies the first fit

98] Example is the greatest of all seducers

99] A bully is always a coward

100] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.