Famous Proverbs

1] Law makers should not be law breakers

2] A woman’s work is never done

3] Every law has a loophole

4] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

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

6] Anger managers everything badly.

7] Evil to him who evil thinks.

8] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

9] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

10] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

11] He that is born a fool is never cured

12] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

13] If today will not, tomorrow may

14] A good beginning makes a good ending.

15] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

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

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

18] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

19] All’s well that ends well

20] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

21] Virtue has all things in itself

22] Wise men propose, and fools determine

23] Well done is better than well said

24] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

25] It is good to follow the old fox

26] Discretion is the better part of valour

27] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

28] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

29] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

30] Envy never enriched any man.

31] Change of pasture makes fat calves

32] Many a little makes a mickle

33] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

34] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

35] A good Conscience is the best divinity

36] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

37] Human blood is all of a colour

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

39] First impressions are most lasting

40] Woes unite foes

41] One barber shaves another gratis

42] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

43] Cowards die many times before their deaths

44] A short cut is often a wrong cut

45] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

46] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

47] All’s well that ends well

48] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

49] Health and money go far

50] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

51] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

52] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

53] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

54] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

55] All truths are not to be told

56] The axe falls on a straight tree first

57] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

58] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

59] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

60] Eat to live and not live to eat.

61] Love is lawless.

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

63] Habit is second nature

64] Fools grow without watering.

65] Conscience does make cowards of us all

66] A bribe will enter without knocking

67] Money talks

68] The eye is bigger than the belly

69] Empty vessels make the most sound

70] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

71] The wisest of the wise may err.

72] Loyalty is worth more than money

73] Silence and thinking can no man offend

74] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

75] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

76] Lose a leg rather than a life

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

78] Too many cooks spoil the broth

79] Dreams go by contraries

80] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

81] A little help is worth a deal of pity

82] The best of friends must part

83] Least said, soonest mended

84] He that lives ill, fear follows him

85] He that can stay. Obtains

86] A bully is always a coward

87] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

88] A little impatience will spoil great plans

89] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

90] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

91] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

92] Numbers overcome the brave

93] The end makes all equal

94] No pain, no cure

95] A true man and a thief think not the same

96] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

97] In my own house, I am king

98] Silence is a woman’s best garment

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

100] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim