Famous Proverbs

1] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

2] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

3] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

4] Covetousness is the root of all evil

5] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

6] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

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

8] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

9] A man can do no more than he can

10] Beware of him who makes thee presents

11] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

12] Tomorrow is another day

13] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

14] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

15] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

16] Little things are great to little men

17] The mean is the best

18] A cat has nine lives

19] Little wealth, little care

20] Great oaks from little acorns grow

21] Now is now, and then was then

22] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

23] He that has no shame has no conscience

24] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

25] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

26] Soon gotten, soon spent

27] In fair weather prepare for foul

28] Every man is his own worst enemy

29] He that obey cannot command

30] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

31] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

32] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

33] Give and spend, and God will send

34] Experience must be bought

35] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

36] Far fowls have fair feather

37] Rich folk have many friends

38] Love can find a way

39] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

40] Black will take no other hue

41] The child is father of the man

42] Nothing is given so freely as advice

43] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

44] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

45] Goodness is better than beauty

46] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

47] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

48] Circumstances alter cases

49] Crows are all completely black

50] Make hay while the sun shines

51] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

52] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

53] What everybody says must be true

54] Better a bare foot than none

55] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

56] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

57] Spend and be free, but make no waste

58] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

59] What’s done cannot be undone

60] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

61] Tell a lie and stick to it.

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

63] The best of men are but men at best.

64] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

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

66] Better the last smile than the first laugh

67] Necessity is the mother of invention

68] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

69] A black hen lays a white egg

70] God is a sure paymaster

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

72] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

73] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

74] No hair so small but has his shadow

75] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

76] We live laws, not by examples

77] A door must be either shut or open

78] The sun shines upon all alike.

79] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

80] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

81] A house divided against itself cannot stand

82] Nature is the true law

83] A wise man hears one word and understands two

84] Share and share alike

85] Good ware makes quick market

86] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

87] He that speaks not, God hears not

88] Wise men do not argue with idiots

89] It is more blessed to give than to receive

90] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

91] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

92] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

93] No man limps because another is hurt

94] A good lawyer must be a great liar

95] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

96] Learn not and know not

97] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

98] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

99] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

100] A constant guest is never welcome