Famous Proverbs

1] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

2] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

3] Repentance is a bitter physic

4] Silence is golden

5] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

6] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

7] There is none misfortune cannot reach

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

9] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

10] He that has an ill name is half hanged

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

12] It is easier to pull down than to build

13] Men make houses, women make homes

14] He that does most at once, does least

15] Suffering does not manifest itself

16] Laws were made to be broke

17] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

18] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

19] A closed mouth catches no files

20] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

21] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

22] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

23] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

24] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

25] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

26] Judge not of men and things at first sight

27] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

28] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

29] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

30] Creditors have better memories than debtors

31] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

32] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

33] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

34] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

35] Great gain makes easy work

36] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

37] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

38] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

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

40] Who greases his way travels easily

41] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

42] What is money to a cat?

43] What is deferred is not abandoned

44] There is no accounting for tastes

45] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

46] Never grieve for what you cannot help

47] He who pays the piper calls the tune

48] The fairest silk is soonest stained

49] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

50] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

51] Custom reconciles us to everything

52] He who demands does not command

53] Pitchers have ears

54] You cannot make a crab walk straight

55] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

56] It never rains it pours

57] Fine words dress ill deeds

58] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

59] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

60] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

61] He travels the fastest who travels alone

62] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

63] How forceful are right words

64] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

65] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

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

67] Confess and be hanged

68] Divine grace was never slow

69] Like question, like answer.

70] Hard words break no bones

71] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

72] Life is short and time is swift

73] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

74] A good conscience is a soft pillow

75] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

76] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

77] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

78] Everything in moderation.

79] Truth is mighty and will prevail

80] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

81] Who greases his way travels easily

82] Vice makes virtue shine

83] Desires are nourished by delays

84] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

85] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

86] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

87] Cleanliness is next to godliness

88] One hand washes the other

89] Better be a fool than a knave

90] Everything in moderation.

91] White there’s life there’s hope

92] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

93] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

94] It takes a wise man to be a fool

95] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

96] The rich knows not who is his friend

97] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

98] It is good fishing in troubled waters

99] What is worse than ill luck?

100] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy