Famous Proverbs

1] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

2] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

3] Confess and be hanged

4] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

5] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

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

7] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

8] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

9] Life is short and time is swift

10] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

11] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

12] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

13] Company in misery makes it light

14] The king can do no wrong

15] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

16] Often and little eating makes a man fat

17] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

18] Virtue is the only true nobility

19] Experience is the best teacher

20] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

21] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

22] Hunger is sharper than the sword

23] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

24] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

25] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

26] He who leaps high must take a long run

27] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

28] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

29] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

30] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

31] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

32] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

33] First think, and then speak

34] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

35] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

36] He conquers who endures

37] Needs must when the evil drives

38] The best wine comes from an old vessel

39] There is no time like the present

40] Beauty is but skin-deep

41] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

42] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

43] A man can do no more than he can

44] Diamond cuts diamond

45] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

46] Precept begins, examples accomplish

47] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

48] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

49] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

50] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

51] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

52] They are rich who have true friends

53] A word spoken is past recalling

54] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

55] Let us do evil that good may come

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

57] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

58] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

59] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

60] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

61] All heiresses are beautiful.

62] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

63] Coming events cast their shadows before

64] The highest tree has the greatest fall

65] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

66] Creditors have better memories than debtors

67] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

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

69] Blood is thicker than water

70] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

71] Penny wise, pound foolish

72] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

73] All griefs with bread are less

74] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

75] Law makers should not be law breakers

76] A mouse may help a lion

77] A good example is the best sermon

78] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

79] God made the country ,and man made the town

80] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

81] Praise no man till he is dead.

82] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

83] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

84] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

85] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

86] Good is good but better carries it

87] Repentance is a bitter physic

88] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

89] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

90] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

91] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

92] There’s a time and place for everything

93] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

94] An ill tongue may do much

95] Needs must when the devil drives

96] Fortune favours fools

97] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

98] Keep something for a rainy day

99] Erring is not heating

100] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings