Famous Proverbs

1] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

2] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

3] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

4] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

5] Good wine needs no bush

6] Standing pools gather fifth

7] As soon as there is life there is danger

8] Great minds think alike

9] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

10] Judge not of men and things at first sight

11] Death is the grand leveler

12] Beauty is only skin deep

13] Nature surpasses art

14] Sow thin and mow thin

15] The biter is sometimes bit

16] There is nothing new under the sun

17] All things are possible with god

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

19] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

20] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

21] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

22] He that talks much, errs much

23] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

24] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

25] Shrouds have no pockets

26] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

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

28] One master in a house is enough

29] Money has no smell

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

31] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

32] Where there is whispering there is lying

33] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

34] No man is born wise or learned

35] Slow and steady wins the race

36] Variety is the spice of life

37] Silence gives (or means) consent

38] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

39] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

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

41] It takes all sorts to make a world

42] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

43] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

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

45] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

46] Out of debt, out of danger

47] Example is better than precept

48] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

49] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

50] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

51] Great actions speak minds

52] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

53] Everything must have a beginning

54] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

55] Of three main roads, take the middle one

56] A beggar can never be bankrupt

57] Lend never that thing you needed most

58] Call a spade a spade

59] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

60] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

61] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

62] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

63] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

64] One is not smelt where all stink

65] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

66] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

67] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

68] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

69] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

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

71] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

72] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

73] All is fair in love and war

74] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

75] Learn to walk before you run

76] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

77] Poor folk fare the best

78] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

79] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

80] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

81] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

82] The hand that gives, gathers

83] There’s a black sheep in every flock

84] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

85] We don’t get something for nothing

86] Plain dealing is best

87] No road is long with good company

88] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

89] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

90] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

91] A rich man’s joke is always funny

92] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

93] Small is beautiful

94] The axe falls on a straight tree first

95] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

96] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

97] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

98] Sooner begun, sooner done

99] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

100] As soon as there is life there is danger