Famous Proverbs

1] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

2] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

3] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

4] There is no rose without a thorn

5] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

6] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

7] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

8] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

9] The great fish eat up the small

10] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

11] In wine there is truth

12] Experience must be bought

13] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

14] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

15] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

16] A good paymaster never wants workmen

17] Every law has a loophole

18] A good wife is a good prize

19] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

20] You are never too old to learn

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

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

23] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

24] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

25] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

26] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

27] They brag most who can do least

28] A bad excuse is better than none at all

29] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

30] The mob has many heads but no brains

31] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

32] Much learning makes men mad

33] Marriage is a lottery

34] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

35] Where there are reeds, there is water

36] It will be the same a hundred years hence

37] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

38] No man is born wise or learned

39] Silence is golden

40] He that ventures not fails not.

41] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

42] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

43] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

44] Every cloud has a silver lining

45] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

46] Health is great riches

47] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

48] A hungry man is angry man

49] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

50] Wrong has no warrant

51] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

52] Moderation in all things

53] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

54] Seeing is believing

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

56] Virtue joints man to god

57] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

58] There are more men threatened than stricken

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

60] Hunger is the teacher of many

61] Much babbling is not without offence

62] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

63] There are more ways to the wood than one.

64] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

65] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

66] When meat is in anger is out

67] Every Jack must have his Jill

68] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

69] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

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

71] No man fears what he has seen grow

72] The worse luck now, the better another time

73] Love knows no limit

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

75] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

76] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

77] A friend in need is a friend indeed

78] A single rose does not mean spring

79] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

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

81] Diamond cuts diamond

82] Better sit still than rise and fall

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

84] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

85] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

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

87] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

88] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

89] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

90] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

91] Past cure, past care

92] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

93] A man may bear till his back breaks

94] Woes unite foes

95] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

96] What costs little is little esteemed

97] He who sows, trusts in God

98] Mirth without measure is madness

99] An Englishman’s home is his castle

100] Great barkers are no biters