Famous Proverbs

1] What’s done cannot be undone

2] Cut your coat according to your cloth

3] A man’s studies pass in to his character

4] Common fame is seldom to blame

5] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

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

7] All are not saints that go to church

8] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

9] Anger managers everything badly.

10] Beware of a silent man and still water

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

12] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

13] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

14] Good luck beats early rising

15] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

16] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

17] At a good bargain thinks twice

18] The tongue stings

19] Covetousness brings nothing home

20] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

21] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

22] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

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

24] Ignorance is the peace of life

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

26] Names are debts

27] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

28] Patience is a plaster for all sores

29] An evil life is a kind of death.

30] In the end, things will mend

31] Better eye sore than al blind

32] Standing pools gather fifth

33] The longest night will have an end

34] The best is often the enemy of the good

35] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

36] Light grows the burden which is well borne

37] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

38] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

39] Make the best of a bad bargain

40] Hunger is the teacher of many

41] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

42] It is more blessed to give than to receive

43] First thrive then wive

44] A little impatience will spoil great plans

45] Better to be safe than sorry.

46] Every path has a puddle

47] Needs must when the evil drives

48] Covetousness breaks the sack

49] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

50] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

51] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

52] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

53] The king can do no wrong

54] Mere wishes are silly fishes

55] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

56] The highest tree has the greatest fall

57] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

58] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

59] God helps those who help themselves

60] Ambition makes people diligent

61] No tie can oblige the perfidious

62] It is the first step that is troublesome

63] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

64] It is more pain to do nothing than something

65] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

66] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

67] There’s a black sheep in every flock

68] Experience is the best teacher

69] A little body often harbours a great soul

70] A house divided against itself cannot stand

71] Custom makes all things easy

72] Hard cases make bad law

73] Don’t kick against the pricks

74] Men make houses, women make homes

75] A mouse may help a lion

76] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

77] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

78] Life begins only in success

79] What is worse than ill luck?

80] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

81] Every commodity has its discommodity

82] One cannot put back the clock

83] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

84] Dog does not eat dog

85] Homo is a common name to all men.

86] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

87] Once a use and ever a custom

88] He that pities another remembers himself

89] God makes the back for the burden

90] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

91] A closed mouth catches no files

92] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

93] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

94] A bad workman always blames his tools

95] Change of pasture makes fat calves

96] Fools grow without watering.

97] Heaven helps those who help themselves

98] An old ox makes a straight furrow

99] Make haste slowly

100] Brave actions never want a trumpet.