Famous Proverbs

1] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

2] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

3] Like mother, like daughter

4] A hedge between keeps friendship green

5] Time has wings

6] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

7] Nothing is so certain as death

8] There is no blindness like ignorance

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

10] Fool’s haste is no speed

11] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

12] Virtue carries a lean purse

13] An honest good look covers many faults.

14] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

15] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

16] Call no man happy till he is dead

17] It is the first step that is troublesome

18] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

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

20] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

21] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

22] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

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

24] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

25] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

26] Don’t cry stinking fish

27] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

28] The fox may grow grey, but never good

29] He that eats least eats most

30] Heaven helps those who help themselves

31] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

32] Work smart; don’t work hard

33] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

34] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

35] It takes a wise man to be a fool

36] No pain, no cure

37] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

38] Idle folks have the least leisure

39] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

40] Lovers are madmen

41] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

42] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

43] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

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

45] What’s in a name?

46] The course of true love never did run smooth

47] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

48] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

49] Great oaks from little acorns grow

50] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

51] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

52] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

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

54] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

55] Kingdoms divided soon fall

56] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

57] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

58] Love laughs at locksmiths

59] There are more men threatened than stricken

60] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

61] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

62] By falling we learn to go safely

63] Little wealth, little care

64] It is not work that kills but worry

65] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

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

67] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

68] What can’t be cured must be endured

69] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

70] Look before you leap

71] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

72] Custom reconciles us to everything

73] The devil dances in an empty pocket

74] Big words seldom go with good deeds

75] He is rich that has few wants

76] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

77] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

78] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

79] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

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

81] Crows are all completely black

82] The young will sow their wild oats

83] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

84] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

85] A good name is better than riches

86] A friend is easier lost than found

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

88] Choose thy company before thy drink

89] Facts are stubborn things

90] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

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

92] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

93] Better children weep than old men

94] Plain dealing is a jewel

95] Money is the sinew of affairs

96] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

97] Light grows the burden which is well borne

98] A little too late, is much too late

99] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

100] It takes all sorts to make a world