Famous Proverbs

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

2] Truth is stranger than fiction

3] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

4] Where god will help, nothing does harm

5] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

6] The unexpected always happens.

7] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

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

9] Lend your money and lose a friend

10] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

11] Poverty is the mother of crime

12] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

13] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

14] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

15] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

16] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

17] The devil knows many things because he is old

18] Better an apple given than eaten

19] Weak things united become strong

20] Forecast is better than work-hard

21] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

22] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

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

24] Business is business

25] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

26] The sun shines upon all alike.

27] Two wrongs do not make a right

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

29] Like master, like man

30] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

31] Possibilities are infinite

32] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

33] The more you have the more you want

34] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

35] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

36] Desires are nourished by delays

37] Diamond cuts diamond

38] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

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

40] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

41] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

42] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

43] Idle folks have the least leisure

44] Trust not the many-minded populace

45] More haste, less speed

46] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

47] Money is power

48] Hunger is the teacher of many

49] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

50] Men make houses, women make homes

51] Put out your tubs when it is raining

52] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

53] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

54] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

55] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

56] The fairest silk is soonest stained

57] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

58] Honour is the reward of virtue

59] Of three main roads, take the middle one

60] Tell the truth and shame the devil

61] A fault confessed is half redressed

62] A single rose does not mean spring

63] He that speaks not, God hears not

64] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

65] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

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

67] One man’s means another man’s poison

68] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

69] Delay is the antidote of anger

70] We are all Adam’s children

71] The great would have none great, and the little all little

72] Little things are great to little men

73] III counsel mars all

74] He who leaps high must take a long run

75] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

76] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

77] Needs must when the devil drives

78] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

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

80] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

81] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

82] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

83] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

84] Honesty is ill to thrive by

85] There are more men threatened than stricken

86] When you do not know what to do – wait.

87] Between two stools you fall to the ground

88] Excessive happiness produces pain

89] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

90] Half an egg is better than empty shell

91] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

92] Birds of a feather flock together

93] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

94] Where there is no trust there is no love

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

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

97] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

98] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

99] Love delights in praise

100] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay