Famous Proverbs

1] Marriage makes or mars a man

2] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

3] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

4] Don’t tell tales out of school

5] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

6] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

7] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

8] Error cannot be defended but by error

9] There is truth in wine

10] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

11] It is never too late to mend

12] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

13] Enough is as good as a feast

14] Save your breath to cool the porridge

15] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

16] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

17] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

18] Good hand, good hire

19] Don’t tell tales out of school

20] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

21] Little things are pretty

22] All our pomp the earth covers

23] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

24] Respect is greater from a distance

25] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

26] Judge not, that ye be not judged

27] Coming events cast their shadows before

28] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

29] If anything can go wrong, it will

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

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

32] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

33] Man cannot live by bread alone

34] Necessity is the mother of invention

35] Anything will fit a naked man.

36] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

37] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

38] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

39] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

40] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

41] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

42] Do unto others as they should do unto you

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

44] Manners make the man

45] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

46] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

47] Easier said than done

48] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

49] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

50] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

51] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

52] Fools grow without watering.

53] The greatest talkers are the least doers

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

55] A bad padlock invites a picklock

56] Petty laws breed great crimes

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

58] He is wise who looks ahead

59] Needs must when the devil drives

60] Wrong has no warrant

61] A little body often harbours a great soul

62] No man is indispensable

63] Let not your tongue run at rover

64] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

65] There is a great difference between words and deeds

66] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

67] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

68] The good die young.

69] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

70] Penny wise, pound foolish

71] Precepts may lead but examples draw

72] Go while the going is good

73] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

74] The best wine comes from an old vessel

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

76] Never judge from appearances

77] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

78] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

79] Will is the cause of woe

80] Repentance comes too late

81] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

82] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

83] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

84] Trust not the many-minded populace

85] All glory comes from daring to begin

86] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

87] A good lawyer must be a great liar

88] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

89] Don’t cry stinking fish

90] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

91] More haste, less speed

92] He travels the fastest who travels alone

93] Waste is not grandeur

94] Harp not for ever on the same string

95] The pen is the tongue of the hand

96] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

97] A man’s mother is his other God

98] A little help is worth a deal of pity

99] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

100] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away