Famous Proverbs

1] Law makers should not be law breakers

2] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

3] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

4] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

5] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

6] Love me, love the crows on my roof

7] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

8] One can’t help many, but many can help one

9] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

10] Easier said than done

11] Circumstances alter cases

12] Silence never makes mistakes

13] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

14] One is not smelt where all stink

15] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

16] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

17] Train the child in the way he should go.

18] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

19] Quietness is a great treasure

20] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

21] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

22] One master in a house is enough

23] Waste not, want not

24] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

25] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

26] A change is as good as rest

27] Ale will make a cat speak

28] Do not wear out your welcome

29] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

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

31] What can’t be cured must be endured

32] It is ill striving against the stream

33] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

34] Every flow must have its ebb

35] The ass that brays most eats

36] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

37] Expectation is better than realisation

38] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

39] He that sows virtue reaps fame

40] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

41] The darkest place is under the candlestick

42] The course of true love never did run smooth

43] God sends cold after Clothes

44] The pot calls the kettle black

45] Bear and forbear

46] Self do, self have

47] Our own opinion is never wrong

48] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

49] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

50] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

51] Gold may be bought too dear

52] A hedge between keeps friendship green

53] Sweet are the uses of adversity

54] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

55] Be just before you are generous

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

57] He that can stay. Obtains

58] Learn to walk before you run

59] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

60] Better be safe than sorry

61] Cowards die many times before their deaths

62] At open doors, dogs come in

63] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

64] It is no use crying over spilt milk

65] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

66] Some are wise and some are otherwise

67] As you sow, so shall you reap

68] Distance lends enchantment to the view

69] Best is cheapest

70] There is honour among thieves

71] Not even Hercules could contend against two

72] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

73] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

74] Heaven helps those who help themselves

75] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

76] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

77] He that pities another remembers himself

78] We live laws, not by examples

79] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

80] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

81] Eat to live and not live to eat.

82] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

83] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

84] Old vessels must leak

85] Experience is the mother of wisdom

86] A word before is worth two behind

87] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

88] There is nothing permanent except change

89] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

90] Stolen sweets are sweeter

91] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

92] True doctrines require no miracles

93] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

94] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

95] Ready money is a ready remedy

96] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

97] Shrouds have no pockets

98] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

99] A good garden may have some ill weeds

100] One good turn deserves another