Famous Proverbs

1] Poverty is the mother of crime

2] The early man ever borrows from the late man

3] The fairest silk is soonest stained

4] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

5] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

6] Save your breath to cool the porridge

7] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

8] Never judge from appearances

9] Love is blind

10] History repeats itself

11] Least said, soonest mended

12] Desire beautifies what is ugly

13] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

14] Make haste slowly

15] Even reckoning makes long friends

16] The weeds overgrow the corn.

17] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

18] Every groom is a king at home

19] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

20] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

21] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

22] A prophet is without honour in his own country

23] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

24] Evil to him who evil thinks.

25] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

26] He that lends, gives

27] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

28] Poverty parts friendship

29] Double charge will rive a cannon

30] Love is without reason

31] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

32] Borrowed garments never fit well

33] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

34] Choose thy company before thy drink

35] Nearest the heart comes out first

36] Many words, many buffets

37] The longest day must have an end

38] Idle folks lack no excuses

39] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

40] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

41] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

42] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

43] A willful man will have his way

44] Better late than never, but better never late

45] Patient men with the day.

46] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

47] First impressions are half the battle

48] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

49] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

50] Petty laws breed great crimes

51] Do as you would be done by

52] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

53] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

54] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

55] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

56] All are not saints that go to church

57] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

58] One cannot love and be wise

59] Fair face, foul heart

60] Sickness shows us what we are

61] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

62] Let not your tongue run at rover

63] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

64] Poverty is no sin

65] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

66] Practice is the science that gives confidence

67] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

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

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

70] No man fears what he has seen grow

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

72] Wash your dirty linen at home

73] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

74] A short cut is often a wrong cut

75] When wine sinks, words swim

76] Spread the table, and contention will cease

77] He that talks much, errs much

78] III luck is good for something

79] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

80] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

81] Erring is not heating

82] Fools rejoice at promises

83] Better bend than break

84] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

85] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

86] What is money to a cat?

87] One cannot put back the clock

88] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

89] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

90] When meat is in anger is out

91] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

92] A gift much expected is paid, not given

93] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

94] Blue are the far away hills

95] Make hay while the sun shines

96] Beauty fades like a flower.

97] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

98] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

99] No man is his craft’s master the first day

100] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most