Famous Proverbs

1] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

2] A friend is easier lost than found

3] An obedient wife commands her husband

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

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

6] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

7] Heaven helps those who help themselves

8] He that has no shame has no conscience

9] Small is the seed of every greatness

10] Hasty work, double work,

11] Covetousness brings nothing home

12] Have two strings to your bow

13] A cat has nine lives

14] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

15] If you would be well served, serve yourself

16] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

17] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

18] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

19] Past cure, past care

20] A crust is better than no bread.

21] Shrouds have no pockets

22] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

23] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

24] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

25] Dead men tell no tales

26] The sun shines upon all alike.

27] The highest tree has the greatest fall

28] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

29] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

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

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

32] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

33] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

34] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

35] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

36] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

37] He that wants health wants all

38] The absent party is always to blame.

39] A good example is the best sermon

40] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

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

42] Penny and penny laid up will be many

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

44] A joke’s a very serious thing

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

46] Strength grows stronger by being tried

47] A useful trade is a mine of gold

48] Despair gives courage to a coward

49] Danger makes men devout

50] Money is the sinew of affairs

51] What is worse than ill luck?

52] Idle folks have the least leisure

53] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

54] Care brings grey hair.

55] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

56] Poverty is no sin

57] A good beginning makes a good ending.

58] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

59] Lookers-on see most of the game

60] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

61] No man is wise at all times

62] Without luck, it is better not to be born

63] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

64] The pot calls the kettle black

65] Never too late to repent

66] The coward threatens only when he is safe

67] A living dog is better than a dead lion

68] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

69] He who hesitates is lost

70] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

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

72] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

73] Jack is as good as his master

74] Liars should have good memories

75] A word is enough to the wise

76] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

77] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

78] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

79] All heiresses are beautiful.

80] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

81] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

82] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

83] There is none misfortune cannot reach

84] It takes all sorts to make a world

85] Habit is second nature

86] Call a spade a spade

87] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

88] All griefs with bread are less

89] All doors open to courtesy

90] Look on the bright side

91] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

92] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

93] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

94] Fool’s haste is no speed

95] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

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

97] Life is short and time is swift

98] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

99] A goose drinks as much as gander

100] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself