Famous Proverbs

1] Those near the temple deride the gods

2] Better an apple given than eaten

3] He that brings good news, knocks hard

4] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

5] Money is the root of all evil

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

7] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

8] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

9] Judge not, that ye be not judged

10] Little wealth, little care

11] Prevention is better than cure

12] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

13] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

14] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

15] Never hit a man when he’s down

16] Christmas comes but once a year

17] Art improves Nature

18] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

19] All lay loads on a willing horse

20] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

21] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

22] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

23] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

24] There is many a true word spoken in jest

25] What can’t be cured must be endured

26] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

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

28] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

29] Use makes mastery

30] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

31] A closed mouth catches no files

32] One kindness is the price of another

33] From word to deed is a great space

34] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

35] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

36] Harp not for ever on the same string

37] He knows the water best who has waded through it

38] You are never too old to learn

39] He that travels far knows much

40] Money can influence even the spirits

41] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

42] Silence never makes mistakes

43] Kind hearts are more than coronets

44] He that praises himself, spatters himself

45] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

46] A woman’s work is never done

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

48] It is more pain to do nothing than something

49] Dying is as natural as living

50] As you sow, so shall you reap

51] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

52] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

53] Love is sweet torment

54] Man cannot live by bread alone

55] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

56] A knave and a fool never take thought

57] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

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

59] He that wants health wants all

60] Better the foot slip than the tongue

61] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

62] Wine unveils the words of the heart

63] Talk much end err much

64] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

65] The mob tramples on the coward

66] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

67] A good garden may have some ill weeds

68] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

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

70] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

71] There is no tree but bears some fruit

72] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

73] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

74] Like father, like son

75] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

76] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

77] Live not to eat, but eat to live

78] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

79] Content is more than a kingdom

80] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

81] Care brings grey hair.

82] Suffering does not manifest itself

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

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

85] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

86] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

87] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

88] Poverty parts friendship

89] First things first

90] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

91] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

92] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

93] He who pays the piper calls the tune

94] What is worth doing is worth doing well

95] He who touches pitch will be defiled

96] Fortune favours fools

97] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

98] Needs must when the evil drives

99] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

100] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son