Famous Proverbs

1] Slow help is no help

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

3] Money is the root of all evil

4] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

5] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

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

7] Company in misery makes it light

8] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

9] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

10] Pardon makes offenders

11] Help a lame dog over a stile

12] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

13] Love laughs at locksmiths

14] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

15] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

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

17] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

18] Great oaks from little acorns grow

19] A good name is a rich heritage

20] Diligence is the mother of good luck

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

22] What the king wills, that the law wills

23] Second thoughts are best

24] Who suffers much is silent

25] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

26] Like breeds like

27] Nature hates all sudden changes

28] Circumstances alter cases

29] Let like mate with like

30] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

31] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

32] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

33] One cannot put back the clock

34] All’s well that ends well

35] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

36] First impressions are most lasting

37] A crust is better than no bread.

38] In fair weather prepare for foul

39] Every man to his trade.

40] Be careful to whom you give

41] A scalded cat fears hot water.

42] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

43] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

44] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

45] No news is good news

46] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

47] Sickness soaks the purse

48] Coming events cast their shadows before

49] Pat any man and dust will fly

50] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

51] Many drops make a shower

52] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

53] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

54] A hungry man smells meat afar off

55] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

56] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

57] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

58] A good name is better than riches

59] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

60] Bare walls make giddy housewives

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

62] No one betrays himself by silence

63] All is fair in love and war

64] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

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

66] Love conquers all

67] Death is the grand leveler

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

69] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

70] Desire beautifies what is ugly

71] God’s help is better than the early rising

72] A friend in need is a friend indeed

73] Children and chickens must be always picking

74] What’s done cannot be undone

75] When meat is in anger is out

76] Do not triumph before the victory

77] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

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

79] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

80] Hope is grief’s best music

81] Mirth without measure is madness

82] The goat must browse where she is tied

83] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

84] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

85] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

86] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

87] He that has no money needs no purse

88] He who sows, trusts in God

89] What will not money do?

90] A little is better than none

91] Each day brings its own bread

92] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

93] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

94] A good wife makes a good husband

95] Manners and money make a gentleman

96] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

97] Virtue has all things in itself

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

99] A little body often harbours a great soul

100] A man can do no more than he can