Famous Proverbs

1] Knowledge is power

2] The good intention excuses the bad action

3] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

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

5] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

6] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

7] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

8] Names and natures do often agree

9] An empty sack cannot stand upright

10] Love cannot be compelled

11] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

12] Like will to like

13] When angry, count a hundred

14] Nothing is given so freely as advice

15] Quickly come, quickly go

16] The longest day must have an end

17] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

18] No answer is also an answer

19] Barking dogs seldom bite

20] Even reckoning makes long friends

21] Light grows the burden which is well borne

22] Better to ask the way than go astray.

23] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

24] He stands not surely that never slips

25] Seek and you shall find

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

27] Beware of a silent man and still water

28] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

29] It is as natural to die as to be born

30] Diamond cuts diamond

31] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

32] Slow help is no help

33] Diligence is the mother of good luck

34] Fools rejoice at promises

35] He that lives ill, fear follows him

36] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

37] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

38] Grin and bear it

39] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

40] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

41] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

42] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

43] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

44] Hope keeps man alive

45] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

46] The borrower is servant to the lender

47] If you want peace, prepare for war

48] Love me, love my dog

49] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

50] Union (or Unity) is strength

51] The biter is sometimes bit

52] A friend in need is a friend indeed

53] Every light has its shadow

54] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

55] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

56] Master easy, servant slack

57] Advice when most needed is least heeded

58] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

59] He is rich that has few wants

60] Many doctors, death accomplished

61] Too long burden makes weary bones

62] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

63] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

64] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

65] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

66] The ass that brays most eats

67] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

68] A bully never grows up.

69] Half a loaf is better than do bread

70] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

71] Wake not a sleeping lion

72] All things that great men do are well done

73] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

74] Good broth may be made in an old pot

75] An open door may tempt a saint

76] The darkest place is under the candlestick

77] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

78] Charity excuseth not cheating.

79] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

80] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

81] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

82] He who does no good, does evil enough

83] There is safety in numbers

84] You may know by a handful the whole sack

85] Silence is golden

86] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

87] Many hands make light work

88] He who never was sick dies the first fit

89] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

90] Failure teaches success

91] The more you have the more you want

92] Care brings grey hair.

93] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

94] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

95] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

96] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

97] Once a use and ever a custom

98] One kindness is the price of another

99] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

100] Everything is of use to a housekeeper