Famous Proverbs

1] A man can do no more than he can

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

3] A good wife is a good prize

4] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

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

6] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

7] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

8] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

9] If anything can go wrong, it will

10] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

11] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

12] Four eyes see more than two

13] Call a spade a spade

14] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

15] His own ingenuity pricks him.

16] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

17] Be still and have thy will

18] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

19] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

20] He who touches pitch will be defiled

21] Love is sweet torment

22] Of one ill come many

23] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

24] Care is no cure

25] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

26] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

27] Love is lawless.

28] Better no doctor at all than three.

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

30] God arms the harmless

31] Go not to hell for company

32] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

33] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

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

35] No man fears what he has seen grow

36] Hope often deludes the foolish man

37] Dying men speak true

38] Better the foot slip than the tongue

39] Friendship should not be all on one

40] Delay is the antidote of anger

41] Lovers are madmen

42] There are two sides to every question

43] Enough is as good as a feast

44] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

45] Good counsel never comes amiss

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

47] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

48] The envious man shall never want woe

49] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

50] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

51] Names and natures do often agree

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

53] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

54] Fair play’s a jewel

55] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

56] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

57] All heiresses are beautiful.

58] Mere wishes are silly fishes

59] Fingers were made before forks

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

61] Books and friends should be few but good

62] Names and natures do often agree

63] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

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

65] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

66] It is all in the day’s work

67] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

68] Life is short and time is swift

69] Desire beautifies what is ugly

70] Death alone can kill hope

71] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

72] Slow but sure wins the race

73] There are spots even in the sun

74] Confess and be hanged

75] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

76] There are more men threatened than stricken

77] Think on the end before you begin

78] Love delights in praise

79] He that can stay. Obtains

80] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

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

82] Birds once snared fear all bushes

83] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

84] New lords, new laws

85] There’s a black sheep in every flock

86] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

87] Dog does not eat dog

88] He that speaks not, God hears not

89] The dog that fetches, will carry.

90] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

91] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

92] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

93] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

94] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

95] Hard cases make bad law

96] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

97] First catch your hare

98] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

99] The leopard cannot change its spots

100] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched