Famous Proverbs

1] Necessity breaks iron

2] Time flies

3] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

4] Of one ill come many

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

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

7] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

8] Two blacks do not make a white

9] One thief will not rob another

10] They brag most who can do least

11] Not even Hercules could contend against two

12] Wife and Children are bills of charges

13] The unexpected always happens.

14] Where god will help, nothing does harm

15] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

16] Love turns pimples

17] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

18] The hole calls the thief

19] Love cannot be compelled

20] Almost’ never killed a fly.

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

22] He who comes first, grinds first.

23] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

24] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

25] It is the unexpected that always happens

26] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

27] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

28] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

29] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

30] Work expands so as to fill the time available

31] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

32] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

33] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

34] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

35] In everything consider the end

36] Great gain makes easy work

37] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

38] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

39] What cannot gold do?

40] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

41] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

42] Wife and Children are bills of charges

43] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

44] There’s always room at the top

45] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

47] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

48] The coward threatens only when he is safe

49] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

50] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

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

52] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

53] A woman’s work is never done

54] A useful trade is a mine of gold

55] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

56] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

57] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

58] The more laws, the more offenders

59] Kind hearts are more than coronets

60] The ass that brays most eats

61] Sickness shows us what we are

62] Mirth without measure is madness

63] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

64] Diligence is the mother of good luck

65] Necessity is the mother of invention

66] It is no use crying over spilt milk

67] Money is the sinews of war

68] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

69] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

70] Love delights in praise

71] Names are debts

72] Excessive happiness produces pain

73] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

74] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

75] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

76] One lie makes many

77] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

78] Necessity is the mother of invention

79] The borrower is servant to the lender

80] Each day brings its own bread

81] Work won’t kill but worry will.

82] All griefs with bread are less

83] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

84] No man is a hero to his valet

85] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

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

87] A parrot will only say what it is taught

88] He that has no shame has no conscience

89] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

90] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

91] In wine there is truth

92] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

93] Never refuse a good offer

94] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

95] Coming events cast their shadows before

96] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

97] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

98] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

99] Content is better than riches

100] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye