Famous Proverbs

1] Money isn’t everything

2] At a good bargain thinks twice

3] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

4] Good fences make good neighbours

5] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

6] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

7] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

8] Dirty linen should be washed at home

9] Sooner begun, sooner done

10] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

11] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

12] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

13] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

14] There is safety in numbers

15] The course of true love never did run smooth

16] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

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

18] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

19] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

20] III luck is good for something

21] Love is lawless.

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

23] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

24] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

25] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

26] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

27] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

28] Fish begins to stink at the head

29] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

30] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

31] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

32] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

33] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

34] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

35] Of evil manners, spring good laws

36] You cannot serve God and Mammon

37] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

38] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

39] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

40] The coward threatens only when he is safe

41] Better an apple given than eaten

42] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

43] Enough is as good as a feast

44] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

45] The young will sow their wild oats

46] Don’t cry for the moon

47] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

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

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

50] Love me, love my dog

51] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

52] The value of money is having it.

53] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

54] A crowd is not company

55] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

56] The leopard cannot change its spots

57] The great fish eat up the small

58] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

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

60] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

61] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

62] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

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

64] Man does what he can, and God what he will

65] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

66] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

67] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

68] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

69] If you would be well served, serve yourself

70] Light burden I heavy if far borne

71] The worse luck now, the better another time

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

73] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

74] The thread breaks where it is weakest

75] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

76] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

77] A bully is always a coward

78] Do unto others as they should do unto you

79] You cannot unscramble eggs

80] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

81] No sweet without sweat

82] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

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

84] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

85] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

86] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

87] Homer sometimes nods

88] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

89] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

90] A good conscience is a soft pillow

91] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

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

93] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

94] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

95] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

96] Failure teaches success

97] The child is father of the man

98] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

99] The wisest of the wise may err.

100] As you sow, so shall you reap