Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

2] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

3] Intimacy lessens fame

4] Much learning makes men mad

5] The more you have the more you want

6] Weeds need no sowing

7] Leave well alone

8] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

9] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

10] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

11] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

12] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

13] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

14] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

15] A golden key opens every door

16] Good to begin well, better to end well.

17] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

18] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

19] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

20] East or west, home is best

21] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

22] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

23] Better learn late than never

24] No choice amongst stinking fish

25] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

26] Crime does not pay

27] A good payer is master of another’s purse

28] You cannot have it both ways

29] A short cut is often a wrong cut

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

31] Dead men don’t bite

32] What’s done cannot be undone

33] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

34] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

35] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

36] One cannot put back the clock

37] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

38] No one ought to judge in his own cause

39] One hand washes the other

40] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

41] A crowd is not company

42] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

43] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

44] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

45] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

46] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

47] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

48] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

49] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

50] Honesty is ill to thrive by

51] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

52] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

53] You are never too old to learn

54] Pursuits become habits

55] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

56] Judge not, that ye be not judged

57] The more wicked, the more lucky

58] A word to the wise is enough

59] One barber shaves another gratis

60] No flying without wings.

61] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

62] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

63] There is no place like home

64] Give and spend, and God will send

65] Praises fill not the belly

66] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

67] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

68] That which is easily done is soon believed

69] Nature is the true law

70] Experience is good if not bought too dear

71] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

72] Books and friends should be few but good

73] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

74] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

75] Homer sometimes nods

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

77] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

78] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

79] The pen is the tongue of the hand

80] A good heart conquers ill fortune

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

82] The thread breaks where it is weakest

83] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

84] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

85] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

86] Self do, self have

87] The best things carried to excess are wrong

88] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

89] Think of ease, but work on.

90] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

91] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

92] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

93] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

94] The best things are hard to come by.

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

96] Little pitchers have big ears.

97] All are not saints that go to church

98] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

99] The longest day must have an end

100] Give credit where credit is due