Famous Proverbs

1] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

2] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

3] A friend is easier lost than found

4] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

5] Do as say, not as I do

6] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

7] Every bean has its black

8] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

9] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

10] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

11] Nature is the true law

12] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

13] To err is human; to forgive, divine

14] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

15] Kill two birds with one stone

16] Clothes do not make the man

17] One reason is as good as fifty

18] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

19] Rip not up old sores

20] Nothing is so certain as death

21] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

22] Do right and fear no man

23] Friendship should not be all on one side

24] A good paymaster needs no surety

25] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

26] Long life has long misery

27] One is what one eats

28] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

29] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

30] Truth is god’s daughter

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

32] Beauty opens locked doors

33] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

34] A good beginning is half the battle.

35] He who comes late must eat what is left

36] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

37] Children and fools have merry lives

38] Lend never that thing you needed most

39] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

40] A man in debt is caught in a net

41] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

42] So many men, so many opinions

43] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

44] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

45] Love and business teach eloquence

46] A bribe will enter without knocking

47] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

48] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

49] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

50] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

51] No good building without a good foundation.

52] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

53] Think on the end before you begin

54] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

55] All things are possible with god

56] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

57] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

58] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

59] The mean is the best

60] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

61] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

62] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

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

64] Strength grows stronger by being tried

65] Ill luck is good for something

66] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

67] The labour we delight in physics pain

68] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

69] A goose drinks as much as gander

70] The axe falls on a straight tree first

71] The greatest step is that out of doors

72] Far fowls have fair feather

73] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

74] Every cloud has a silver lining

75] The resolved mind has no cares

76] Fair play’s a jewel

77] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

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

79] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

80] It is more pain to do nothing than something

81] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

82] A crowd is not company

83] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

84] Man proposes, God disposes

85] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

86] Success has many friends

87] The end justifies the means

88] Every man praises his own wares

89] Every man must carry his own cross

90] All things are easy, that are done willingly

91] Work smart; don’t work hard

92] Sorrow will pay no debt

93] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

94] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

95] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

96] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

97] Better to be safe than sorry.

98] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

99] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

100] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s