Famous Proverbs

1] Look on the bright side

2] A good garden may have some ill weeds

3] All griefs with bread are less

4] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

5] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

6] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

7] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

8] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

9] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

10] Will is no skill

11] The weeds overgrow the corn.

12] One can’t help many, but many can help one

13] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

14] He that has a wife, has strife

15] Conscience does make cowards of us all

16] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

17] Heaven helps those who help themselves

18] The day obliterates the promise of the might

19] A crust is better than no bread.

20] Wise men silent, fools talk

21] The mob has many heads but no brains

22] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

23] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

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

25] Blood is thicker than water

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

27] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

28] Books and friends should be few but good

29] Dirty water does not wash clean.

30] Once a knave, always a knave

31] No man is indispensable

32] One man’s loss is another’s gain

33] There’s no place like home

34] What is new cannot be true

35] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

36] When you do not know what to do – wait.

37] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

38] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

39] Good clothes open all doors

40] A good heart cannot lie.

41] A good Conscience is the best divinity

42] Remember, you are but a man

43] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

44] Experience must be bought

45] Common fame is seldom to blame

46] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

47] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

48] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

49] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

50] Judge not, that ye be not judged

51] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

52] Misfortune does not always come to injure

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

54] Young saint, old devil.

55] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

56] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

57] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

58] All cats are grey in the dark

59] Don’t cry for the moon

60] The ass that brays most eats

61] Crime does not pay

62] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

63] Virtue joints man to god

64] Hear twice before you speak once

65] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

66] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

67] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

68] A wise man hears one word and understands two

69] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

70] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

71] No cross, no crown

72] Hope often deludes the foolish man

73] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

74] Bread is the staff of life.

75] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

76] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

77] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

78] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

79] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

80] Mercy surpasses justice

81] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

82] Virtue is its own reward

83] Wake not a sleeping lion

84] Sweet are the uses of adversity

85] Slow and steady wins the race

86] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

87] Love and business teach eloquence

88] Wrong has no warrant

89] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

90] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

91] A good dog deserves a good bone

92] Fair play’s a jewel

93] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

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

95] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

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

97] Little things please little minds

98] Better eye sore than al blind

99] Ready money is a ready remedy

100] The borrower is servant to the lender