Famous Proverbs

1] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

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

3] Men are known by the company they keep.

4] It is useless to flog a dead horse

5] What has been, may be

6] Variety takes away satiety

7] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

8] The receiver is as bad as the thief

9] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

10] Every commodity has its discommodity

11] Nearest the heart comes out first

12] The hand that gives, gathers

13] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

14] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

15] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

16] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

17] Vice makes virtue shine

18] The great would have none great, and the little all little

19] They brag most who can do least

20] In the end, things will mend

21] A good name is a rich heritage

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

23] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

24] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

25] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

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

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

28] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

29] Work smart; don’t work hard

30] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

31] A closed mouth catches no files

32] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

33] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

34] Many words, many buffets

35] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

36] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

37] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

38] A stitch in time saves nine

39] It takes two to make a quarrel

40] Wink at small faults

41] Asking costs little

42] One good turn deserves another

43] Custom reconciles us to everything

44] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

45] The thing which is rare is dear

46] One thief will not rob another

47] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

48] Standing pools gather fifth

49] Lose a leg rather than a life

50] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

51] More haste, less speed

52] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

53] Judge not of men and things at first sight

54] The greatest step is that out of doors

55] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

56] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

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

58] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

59] No man is wise at all times

60] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

61] Hear twice before you speak once

62] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

63] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

64] He is an ill husband who is not missed

65] It is a great victory that comes without blood

66] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

67] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

68] A good wife is a good prize

69] Law makers should not be law breakers

70] The greatest step is that out of doors

71] Spend and be free, but make no waste

72] Adventures are to be adventurous

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

74] Covetousness brings nothing home

75] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

76] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

77] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

78] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

79] Good broth may be made in an old pot

80] The day obliterates the promise of the might

81] It is more blessed to give than to receive

82] Half a loaf is better than do bread

83] God’s help is better than the early rising

84] There is a black sheep in every flock

85] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

86] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

87] A miss is as good as a mile

88] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

89] A gift much expected is paid, not given

90] Every man has his price

91] A prophet is without honour in his own country

92] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

93] The coward threatens only when he is safe

94] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

95] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

96] Example, is better than precept

97] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

98] Poor men’s words have little weight

99] None can guess the jewel by the casket

100] The righteous man sins before an open chest