Famous Proverbs

1] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

2] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

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

4] Borrowed garments never fit well

5] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

6] Poverty is no sin

7] Slow and steady wins the race

8] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

9] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

10] Poverty is the mother of crime

11] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

12] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

13] Truth has no need of rhetoric

14] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

15] Mercy surpasses justice

16] Never do things by halves

17] Better to be safe than sorry.

18] An army marches on its stomach

19] Laughter makes good blood

20] All glory comes from daring to begin

21] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

22] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

23] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

24] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

25] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

26] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

27] He who has seen little marvels much

28] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

29] Lookers-on see more than players

30] Take the will for the deed

31] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

32] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

33] Ignorance is the peace of life

34] Discretion is the better part of valour

35] Poor folk fare the best

36] A living dog is better than a dead lion

37] A loveless life is a living death

38] Parents are patterns

39] Actions speak louder than words

40] The hole calls the thief

41] Many a little makes a mickle

42] Pat any man and dust will fly

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

44] No convenience without its inconvenience

45] Better learn late than never

46] Well done is better than well said

47] There is no smoke without fire

48] Wash your dirty linen at home

49] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

50] The course of true love never did run smooth

51] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

52] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

53] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

54] Money is the sinew of affairs

55] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

56] Time and tide wait for no man

57] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

58] There is safety in numbers

59] Hard cases make bad law

60] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

61] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

62] Fire is a good servant a bad master

63] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

64] It is all in the day’s work

65] God is a sure paymaster

66] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

67] You win some, you lose some

68] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

69] All things are possible with god

70] Once bitten, twice shy.

71] What must be must be

72] The end crowns the work.

73] In my own house, I am king

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

75] Better are small fish than an empty dish

76] Wink at small faults

77] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

78] Better to ask the way than go astray.

79] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

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

81] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

82] Pursuits become habits

83] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

84] Out of debt, out of danger

85] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

86] Penny and penny laid up will be many

87] A bad padlock invites a picklock

88] Hope keeps man alive

89] He knows most who speaks least

90] Truth is stranger than fiction

91] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

92] A true friend is forever a friend

93] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

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

95] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

96] The rich knows not who is his friend

97] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

98] Mere wishes are silly fishes

99] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

100] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.