Famous Proverbs

1] God helps those who help themselves

2] Old habits die hard

3] Do not triumph before the victory

4] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

5] What can’t be cured must be endured

6] Fingers were made before forks

7] There is truth in wine

8] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

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

10] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

11] Misery loves company.

12] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

13] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

14] There is nothing new under the sun

15] Expectation is better than realisation

16] He has not lost all who has one cast left

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

18] Ready money is ready medicine

19] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

20] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

21] Keep some till further more come

22] A good name is a rich heritage

23] Accidents will happen

24] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

25] He that does most at once, does least

26] Kind hearts are more than coronets

27] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

28] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

29] Too much hope deceives

30] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

31] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

32] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

33] Everything must have a beginning

34] The best is often the enemy of the good

35] There is a black sheep in every flock

36] Wedlock is padlock

37] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

38] Common fame is a liar

39] It will be the same a hundred years hence

40] Truth is mighty and will prevail

41] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

42] No man is indispensable

43] Variety is the spice of life

44] Care is no cure

45] All heiresses are beautiful.

46] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

47] We shall lie all alike in our graves

48] Every flow must have its ebb

49] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

50] An open door may tempt a saint

51] Life begins only in success

52] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

53] Tigers and deer do not over.

54] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

55] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

56] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

57] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

58] One hand washes the other

59] You must grin and bear it

60] Vice makes virtue shine

61] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

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

63] He that repairs not a part, builds all

64] Little by little and bit by bit.

65] Custom makes all things easy

66] Never buy a pig in a poke

67] A fool believes everything

68] There’s no great loss without some gain

69] Death does not recognize strength

70] Love delights in praise

71] Make haste slowly

72] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

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

74] Full of courtesy, full of craft

75] A true man and a thief think not the same

76] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

77] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

78] An old dog barks not in vain

79] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

80] Empty vessels make the most noise

81] The end justifies the means

82] Money talks

83] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

84] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

85] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

86] Never say die

87] Some are wise and some are otherwise

88] A loveless life is a living death

89] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

90] Where there are reeds, there is water

91] Cleanliness is next to godliness

92] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

93] A monk can’t shave his own head

94] The bull must be taken by the horns

95] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

96] You are never too old to learn

97] Better be alone than in bad company

98] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

99] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

100] That which is easily done is soon believed