Famous Proverbs

1] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

2] A loveless life is a living death

3] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

4] No road is long with good company

5] Better to be safe than sorry.

6] Time and tide wait for no man

7] A change is as good as rest

8] There is honour among thieves

9] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

10] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

11] God sends cold after Clothes

12] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

13] Take the will for the deed

14] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

15] Adam’s ale is the best brew

16] Money is the root of all evil

17] Money isn’t everything

18] A friend is easier lost than found

19] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

20] No feast lasts forever.

21] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

22] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

23] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

24] The dog that fetches, will carry.

25] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

26] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

27] Tomorrow never comes

28] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

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

30] First think, and then speak

31] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

32] Mirth without measure is madness

33] He that knows little often repeats it

34] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

35] A little is better than none

36] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

37] Where there is peace, God is

38] Beauty is but skin-deep

39] Gluttony kills more than the sword

40] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

41] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

42] His own ingenuity pricks him.

43] No tie can oblige the perfidious

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

45] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

46] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

47] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

48] Make haste slowly

49] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

50] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

51] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

52] The eye is bigger than the belly

53] Money talks

54] Never buy a pig in a poke

55] When wine sinks, words swim

56] An open door may tempt a saint

57] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

58] God’s lambs will play.

59] He that brings good news, knocks hard

60] A hedge between keeps friendship green

61] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

62] Praise no man till he is dead.

63] A monk can’t shave his own head

64] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

65] Delays are not denials

66] Divide and rule

67] Dead dogs bark not

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

69] Wrong never comes right

70] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

71] Custom reconciles us to everything

72] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

73] Appetite comes with eating

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

75] Every light has its shadow

76] Forecast is better than work-hard

77] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

78] We have all been once in our life

79] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

80] The mob has many heads but no brains

81] As long lives a merry man as a sad

82] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

83] Small is the seed of every greatness

84] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

85] A piece of churchyard fits every body

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

87] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

88] Charity excuseth not cheating.

89] Nature is content with little.

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

91] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

92] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

93] The owl thinks her own young fairest

94] You must grin and bear it

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

96] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

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

98] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

99] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

100] Every shoe fits not every foot