Famous Proverbs

1] Might overcome right.

2] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

3] Heaven helps those who help themselves

4] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

5] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

6] Slow but sure wins the race

7] Sweet are the uses of adversity

8] First catch your hare

9] A living dog is better than a dead lion

10] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

11] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

12] Flesh is frail

13] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

14] Despair gives courage to a coward

15] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

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

17] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

18] Put out your tubs when it is raining

19] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

20] Revenge is sweet

21] Wink at small faults

22] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

23] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

24] There’s always room at the top

25] Lavishness is not generosity

26] Children learn to creep ere they can go

27] A little too late, is much too late

28] Corn him well and he will work better

29] Truth is stranger than fiction

30] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

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

32] He who teaches learns

33] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

34] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

35] The dog that fetches, will carry.

36] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

37] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

38] Hungry bellies have no ears

39] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

40] Handsome is as handsome does

41] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

42] When angry, count a hundred

43] A bad padlock invites a picklock

44] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

45] Good clothes open all doors

46] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

47] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

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

49] Silence never makes mistakes

50] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

51] Prospect is often better than possession

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

53] The unexpected always happens.

54] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

55] Evil to him who evil thinks.

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

57] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

58] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

59] A good servant must have good wages

60] Morning dreams come true

61] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

62] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

63] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

64] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

65] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

66] Ignorance is the peace of life

67] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

68] There is no accounting for tastes

69] Where there is no trust there is no love

70] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

71] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

72] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

73] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

74] First impressions are half the battle

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

76] Divine grace was never slow

77] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

78] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

79] Don’t play with fire

80] Eat to live and not live to eat.

81] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

82] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

83] Life is not all beer and skittles

84] Through obedience learn to command.

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

86] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

87] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

88] You can’t win them all

89] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

90] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

91] No garden without its weeds.

92] Stolen goods never thrive

93] The pot calls the kettle black

94] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

95] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

96] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

97] Hunger is sharper than the sword

98] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

99] He laughs best who laughs last

100] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist