Famous Proverbs

1] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

2] Patience is a plaster for all sores

3] God’s lambs will play.

4] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

5] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

6] No cross, no crown

7] A little learning is dangerous thing

8] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

9] A beggar can never be bankrupt

10] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

11] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

12] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

13] A useful trade is a mine of gold

14] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

15] The exception proves the rule

16] Virtue is the only true nobility

17] Success has many friends

18] We live laws, not by examples

19] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

20] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

21] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

22] Error cannot be defended but by error

23] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

24] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

25] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

26] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

27] The lion had need of the mouse

28] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

29] Fool’s haste is no speed

30] The envious man shall never want woe

31] An egg thief will become a camel thief

32] Every dog is a lion at home

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

34] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

35] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

36] Wine unveils the words of the heart

37] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

38] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

39] Empty vessels make the most sound

40] Life is not all beer and skittles

41] Truth conquers all things

42] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

43] When one door shuts, another opens

44] If the cap fits, wear it

45] A good friend is my nearest relation

46] It is ill striving against the stream

47] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

48] Poverty is not a crime

49] Better the last smile than the first laugh

50] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

51] Men are not angles

52] It is good fishing in troubled waters

53] It costs more to do ill than to do well

54] Many drops make a shower

55] What is new cannot be true

56] God is a sure paymaster

57] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

58] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

59] A prophet is without honour in his own country

60] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

61] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

62] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

63] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

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

65] You are never too old to learn

66] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

67] Example is better than precept

68] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

69] Big words seldom go with good deeds

70] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

71] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

72] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

73] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

74] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

75] Dumb men get no lands

76] The hand that gives, gathers

77] Muck and money go together

78] That which proves too much proves nothing

79] Spend and be free, but make no waste

80] Familiarity breeds contempt

81] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

82] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

83] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

84] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

85] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

86] One father is more than a hundred school masters

87] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

88] True doctrines require no miracles

89] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

90] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

91] There is nothing that costs less than civility

92] A healthy man is a successful man

93] He who leaps high must take a long run

94] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

95] The highest tree has the greatest fall

96] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

97] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

98] Like question, like answer.

99] Needs must when the evil drives

100] A good conscience is a soft pillow