Famous Proverbs

1] No wrong without a remedy

2] Go while the going is good

3] Don’t ride the high horse

4] Good luck beats early rising

5] Give the devil his due

6] The race is got by running

7] Let sleeping dogs lie

8] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

9] No man limps because another is hurt

10] Her that is down need fear no fall

11] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

12] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

13] A good conscience is a sure card

14] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

15] What is new cannot be true

16] Self-praise is no recommendation

17] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

18] The greatest talkers are the least doers

19] Do as I say, not as I do

20] Hear twice before you speak once

21] He that obey cannot command

22] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

23] Facts are stubborn things

24] A soft answer turns away wrath

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

26] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

27] First impressions are half the battle

28] Beggars must not be choosers

29] The more you get, the more you want

30] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

31] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

32] A good conscience is a soft pillow

33] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

34] Hard words break no bones

35] Don’t play with fire

36] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

37] Black will take no other hue

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

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

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

41] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

42] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

43] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

44] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

45] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

46] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

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

48] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

49] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

50] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

51] Pleasant hours fly past

52] Virtue carries a lean purse

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

54] Patient waiters are no losers

55] Bad luck often brings good luck

56] Health is great riches

57] A man of courage never wants weapons

58] Covetousness breaks the sack

59] The best wine comes from an old vessel

60] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

61] Half a word is enough for a wise man

62] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

63] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

64] Dogs bark as they are bred.

65] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

66] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

67] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

68] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

69] One lie makes many

70] One of these days is none of these days

71] Grin and bear it

72] Desire beautifies what is ugly

73] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

74] Train the child in the way he should go.

75] Great hopes make great men

76] Money makes the man

77] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

78] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

79] Success has many friends

80] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

81] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

82] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

83] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

84] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

85] Don’t tell tales out of school

86] Words cut more than swords

87] No cross, no crown

88] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

89] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

90] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

91] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

92] Sorrow will pay no debt

93] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

94] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

95] Common fame is a liar

96] Men are not to be measured in inches

97] Take the tone of the company you are in

98] The best things come in small packages

99] Patient waiters are no losers

100] Misfortune tells us what fortune is