Famous Proverbs

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

2] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

3] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

4] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

5] The good intention excuses the bad action

6] All meat pleases not all mouths

7] He that has a wife, has strife

8] He that is born a fool is never cured

9] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

10] Nature will have her course

11] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

12] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

13] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

14] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

15] Will is no skill

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

17] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

18] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

19] The slowest barker is the surest biter

20] Do not limp before the lame

21] Let not your tongue run at rover

22] A little too late, is much too late

23] Heaven helps those who help themselves

24] Misfortunes never come singly

25] The longest way round is the shortest way home

26] Good counsel never comes amiss

27] Example is the greatest of all seducers

28] Penny wise, pound foolish

29] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

30] Circumstances alter cases

31] Take time by the forelock

32] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

33] No wrong without a remedy

34] Health without money is half an ague

35] Great barkers are no biters

36] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

37] Seeing is believing

38] A bribe will enter without knocking

39] The devil looks after his own

40] What is worse than ill luck?

41] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

42] Money is the sinews of war

43] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

44] Words and feathers the wind carries away

45] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

46] Poor men’s words have little weight

47] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

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

49] What will not money do?

50] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

51] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

52] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

53] Debt is an evil conscience

54] He who comes first, grinds first.

55] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

56] A man may learn wit every day.

57] Better at home than a mile from it

58] Little things are great to little men

59] Love laughs at locksmiths

60] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

61] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

62] All cats are grey in the dark

63] He that has no money needs no purse

64] What’s done is done

65] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

66] At a good bargain thinks twice

67] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

68] Good broth may be made in an old pot

69] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

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

71] God is a sure paymaster

72] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

73] Many doctors, death accomplished

74] Love me, love the crows on my roof

75] A good heart cannot lie.

76] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

77] Never do evil that good may come of it

78] It is not work that kills but worry

79] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

80] Curiosity killed the cat.

81] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

82] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

83] All things for not all persons

84] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

85] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

86] Silence is also speech

87] You cannot have your cake and eat it

88] Rust wastes more than use

89] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

90] Better to ask the way than go astray.

91] There is nothing like being on the safe side

92] Names are debts

93] Misfortune does not always come to injure

94] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

95] Birds of a feather flock together

96] Almost’ never killed a fly.

97] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

98] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

99] We are all Adam’s children

100] Patient waiters are no losers