Famous Proverbs

1] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

2] Lend never that thing you needed most

3] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

4] Knowledge is power

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

6] Let us do evil that good may come

7] The more wicked, the more lucky

8] He who leaps high must take a long run

9] A useful trade is a mine of gold

10] There’s a black sheep in every flock

11] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

12] Waste not, want not

13] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

14] A good garden may have some ill weeds

15] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

16] The pen is the tongue of the hand

17] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

18] A good heart cannot lie.

19] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

20] To teach is to learn twice over

21] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

22] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

23] Hope keeps man alive

24] Delays are not denials

25] A good beginning is half the battle.

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

27] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

28] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

29] The righteous man sins before an open chest

30] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

31] A hungry man is angry man

32] No choice amongst stinking fish

33] One sheep follows another

34] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

35] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

36] Harp not for ever on the same string

37] The early man ever borrows from the late man

38] Judge not of men and things at first sight

39] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

40] Prove your friend ere you have need

41] Master easy, servant slack

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

43] A watched pot never boils

44] Practice what you preach

45] Discontent is the first step in progress

46] Hope is grief’s best music

47] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

48] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

49] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

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

51] The thread breaks where it is weakest

52] Every beginning is hard

53] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

54] Little wealth, little care

55] There’s always room at the top

56] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

57] A good conscience is a sure card

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

59] There’s no great loss without some gain

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

61] The greatest step is that out of doors

62] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

63] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

64] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

65] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

66] We are all Adam’s children

67] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

68] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

69] No honest man ever repented his honesty

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

71] It is all in the day’s work

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

73] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

74] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

75] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

76] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

77] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

78] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

79] The end makes all equal

80] Old vessels must leak

81] A prophet is without honour in his own country

82] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

83] There is safety in numbers

84] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

85] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

86] He that has good money, gives few alms

87] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

88] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

89] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

90] A traveller may lie with authority

91] Good hand, good hire

92] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

93] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

94] Muck and money go together

95] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

96] Gold may be bought too dear

97] A jest breaks no bones

98] A strong town is not won in an hour

99] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

100] Ignorance is the peace of life