Famous Proverbs

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

2] When bees area old, they yield n honey

3] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

4] It is more blessed to give than to receive

5] He is rich that has few wants

6] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

7] Misfortune does not always come to injure

8] A cat may look at a king

9] Crows are all completely black

10] You cannot have it both ways

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

12] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

13] One foot is better than two crutches

14] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

15] One man sows and another reaps

16] Like mistress, like maid

17] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

18] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

19] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

20] Novelty always appears handsome

21] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

22] Do unto others as they should do unto you

23] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

24] It is more pain to do nothing than something

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

26] Money is power

27] An old dog barks not in vain

28] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

29] The first step is the hardest

30] The mean is the best

31] Help a lame dog over a stile

32] Dreams go by contraries

33] Hunger breaks stone walls

34] Rip not up old sores

35] An ill tongue may do much

36] Too much cunning undoes

37] Poverty is the mother of crime

38] Soon hot, soon cold

39] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

40] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

41] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

42] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

43] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

44] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

45] Extremes are dangerous

46] Variety is the spice of life

47] Of evil manners, spring good laws

48] Tomorrow is another day

49] Love delights in praise

50] Better eye sore than al blind

51] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

52] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

53] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

54] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

55] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

56] It is easier to pull down than to build

57] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

58] None but the brave deserves the fair

59] Empty vessels make the most sound

60] Penny and penny laid up will be many

61] Dogs bark as they are bred.

62] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

63] A good friend is my nearest relation

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

65] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

66] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

67] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

68] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

69] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

70] If you play with fire you get burnt

71] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

72] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

73] Ready money is ready medicine

74] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

75] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

76] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

77] Misfortune makes foes of friends

78] Open confession is good for the soul

79] After the extreme of cold comes spring

80] He who leaps high must take a long run

81] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

82] None so busy as those who do nothing.

83] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

84] III luck is good for something

85] He that has an ill name is half hanged

86] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

87] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

88] He travels the fastest who travels alone

89] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

90] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

91] It is the first step that is troublesome

92] A useful trade is a mine of gold

93] A man’s wealth is his enemy

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

95] Example is the greatest of all seducers

96] It is never too late to mend

97] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

98] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

99] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

100] Envy eats nothing but it own heart