Famous Proverbs

1] Train the child in the way he should go.

2] Long looked for, comes at last

3] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

4] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

5] It is more blessed to give than to receive

6] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

7] Far fowls have fair feather

8] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

9] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

10] Do as I say, not as I do

11] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

12] The devil is not as black as he is painted

13] He that lends, gives

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

15] Every bean has its black

16] Do not kick against the pricks

17] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

18] Dumb dogs are dangerous

19] It is good fishing in troubled waters

20] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

21] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

22] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

23] Fine words dress ill deeds

24] He travels the fastest who travels alone

25] All is vanity.

26] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

27] The last suitor wins the maid

28] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

29] Hasty work, double work,

30] Faint heart never won fair lady

31] The money you refuse will never do you good

32] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

33] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

34] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

35] Without luck, it is better not to be born

36] He that has plenty of goods will have more

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

38] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

39] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

40] At a good bargain thinks twice

41] Best is cheapest

42] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

43] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

44] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

45] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

46] Never say die

47] Nature will have her course

48] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

49] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

50] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

51] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

52] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

53] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

54] Half a word is enough for a wise man

55] The owl thinks her own young fairest

56] Bad news travels fast

57] Friendship should not be all on one

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

59] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

60] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

61] There is honour among thieves

62] There is no accounting for tastes

63] Silence is also speech

64] Even a worm will turn

65] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

66] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

67] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

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

69] Poverty is not a crime

70] The slowest barker is the surest biter

71] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

72] If the cap fits, wear it

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

74] They brag most who can do least

75] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

76] The axe falls on a straight tree first

77] None so deaf as those that will not hear

78] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

79] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

80] Long life has long misery

81] A good garden may have some ill weeds

82] Grasp all, lose all

83] Standing pools gather fifth

84] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

85] It will be the same a hundred years hence

86] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

87] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

88] Share and share alike

89] Don’t meet trouble half-way

90] Morning dreams come true

91] Every beginning is hard

92] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

93] We soon believe what we desire

94] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

95] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

96] Open a book and you profit by what you read

97] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

98] Dirty water does not wash clean.

99] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

100] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure