Famous Proverbs

1] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

2] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

3] Cleanliness is next to godliness

4] Men are blind in their own cause

5] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

6] Busiest men find the most time

7] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

8] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

9] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

10] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

11] The absent party is always to blame.

12] They that dance must pay the fiddler

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

14] The end justifies the means

15] Death is the grand leveler

16] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

17] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

18] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

19] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

20] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

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

22] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

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

24] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

25] He who pays the piper calls the tune

26] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

27] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

28] Health and wealth create beauty

29] Better never begin than never make an end

30] You are never too old to learn

31] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

32] Knowledge is power

33] Half a loaf is better than do bread

34] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

35] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

36] Dead dogs bark not

37] Like breeds like

38] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

39] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

40] Where there is no trust there is no love

41] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

42] New things are fair

43] Dirty water does not wash clean.

44] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

45] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

46] Enough is as good as a feast

47] No choice amongst stinking fish

48] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

49] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

50] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

51] Better at home than a mile from it

52] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

53] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

54] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

55] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

56] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

57] Every bean has its black

58] It’s a long lane that has no turning

59] A good wife is a good prize

60] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

61] The sun shines upon all alike.

62] Possibilities are infinite

63] When one door shuts, another opens

64] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

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

66] Be still and have thy will

67] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

68] All things require skills but an appetite

69] The cobbler should stick to his last

70] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

71] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

72] Even reckoning makes long friends

73] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

74] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

75] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

76] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

77] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

78] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

79] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

80] What is money to a cat?

81] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

82] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

83] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

84] Books and friends should be few but good

85] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

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

87] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

88] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

89] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

90] Bad news travels fast

91] Sooner begun, sooner done

92] Many words, many buffets

93] First impressions are half the battle

94] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

95] Once bitten, twice shy.

96] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

97] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

98] He that travels far knows much

99] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

100] Better the last smile than the first laugh