Famous Proverbs

1] A fault confessed is half redressed

2] Books and friends should be few but good

3] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

4] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

5] He that desires but little has no deed of much

6] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

7] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

8] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

9] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

10] A mouse may help a lion

11] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

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

13] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

14] One is never too old to learn

15] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

16] No answer is also an answer

17] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

18] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

19] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

20] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

21] Let not your tongue run at rover

22] A good paymaster never wants workmen

23] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

24] Law makers should not be law breakers

25] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

26] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

27] Marriage is a lottery

28] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

29] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

30] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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

32] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

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

34] Hungry bellies have no ears

35] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

36] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

37] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

38] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

39] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

40] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

41] Much meat, much malady

42] Trust is the mother of deceit

43] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

44] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

45] No like is the same.

46] Needs must when the evil drives

47] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

48] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

49] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

50] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

51] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

52] Great trees keep down the little ones

53] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

54] It is not every question that deserves an answer

55] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

56] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

57] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

58] A word is enough to the wise

59] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

60] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

61] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

62] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

63] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

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

65] Every flow must have its ebb

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

67] Patient men with the day.

68] A good lawyer must be a great liar

69] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

70] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

71] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

72] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

73] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

74] None can guess the jewel by the casket

75] A mouse may help a lion

76] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

77] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

78] Every bean has its black

79] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

80] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

81] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

82] The race is got by running

83] Love will find a way

84] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

85] Truth has no need of rhetoric

86] Where there is no might, right loses itself

87] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

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

89] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

90] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

91] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

92] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

93] Don’t put the cart before the horse

94] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

95] Soft fire makes sweet malt

96] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

97] To err is human; to forgive, divine

98] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

99] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

100] Don’t cry before you are hurt