Famous Proverbs

1] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

2] Many drops make a shower

3] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

4] Money can influence even the spirits

5] An obedient wife commands her husband

6] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

7] It is not every question that deserves an answer

8] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

9] Shrouds have no pockets

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

11] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

12] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

13] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

14] No misfortune will go on forever

15] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

16] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

17] The faulty stands on his guard

18] None so busy as those who do nothing.

19] Honest is the best policy

20] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

21] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

22] Rome was not built in a day

23] Health and money go far

24] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

25] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

26] Muck and money go together

27] There is nothing new under the sun

28] Every shoe fits not every foot

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

30] It is ill jesting with edged tools

31] Leave well alone

32] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

33] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

34] Even silence may be eloquent

35] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

36] He that eats well should do his duty well

37] Revenge is sweet

38] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

39] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

40] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

41] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

42] Forecast is better than work-hard

43] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

44] He that lives ill, fear follows him

45] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

46] An open door may tempt a saint

47] From small beginnings come great things

48] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

49] Live and let live

50] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

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

52] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

53] Do not wear out your welcome

54] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

55] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

56] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

57] Second thoughts are best

58] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

59] Every flow must have its ebb

60] The goat must browse where she is tied

61] All for one, and one for all.

62] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

63] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

64] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

65] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

66] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

67] Great talkers are never great doers

68] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

69] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

70] New lords, new laws

71] It is well to live that one may learn

72] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

73] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

74] Wake not a sleeping lion

75] Will is the cause of woe

76] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

77] Tigers and deer do not over.

78] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

79] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

80] Through obedience learn to command.

81] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

82] Alms never make poor

83] You cannot have your cake and eat it

84] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

85] If the cap fits, wear it

86] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

87] Enough is as good as a feast

88] Give credit where credit is due

89] Accidents will happen

90] A good name is better than a golden girdle

91] Excessive happiness produces pain

92] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

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

94] What can’t be cured must be endured

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

96] Prevention is better than cure

97] It costs more to do ill than to do well

98] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

99] Idle folks have the least leisure

100] A good paymaster needs no surety