Famous Proverbs

1] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

2] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

3] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

4] Children and chickens must be always picking

5] God arms the harmless

6] Everything in moderation.

7] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

8] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

9] Don’t put the cart before the horse

10] A good beginning makes a good ending.

11] Marriages are made in heaven

12] A woman’s work is never done

13] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

14] He is wise who looks ahead

15] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

16] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

17] All that glitters is not gold

18] Men do more things through habit than reason

19] Mirth without measure is madness

20] Every commodity has its discommodity

21] A stitch in time saves nine

22] In haste is error

23] Anything will fit a naked man.

24] God’s help is better than the early rising

25] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

26] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

27] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

28] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

29] Health is not value till sickness comes

30] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

31] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

32] A good name is a rich heritage

33] Where there’s a will there’s a way

34] An egg thief will become a camel thief

35] Love will find a way

36] No man is born wise or learned

37] The longest way round is the shortest way home

38] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

39] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

40] All’s fair in love and war

41] When in doubt, do nothing

42] Truth is god’s daughter

43] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

44] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

45] Virtue is the only true nobility

46] Ready money is a ready remedy

47] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

48] One good turn deserves another

49] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

50] All is vanity.

51] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

52] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

53] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

54] Beauty is only skin deep

55] One hand washes the other

56] Mere wishes are silly fishes

57] A willful man will have his way

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

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

60] A wicked man is his own hell

61] The pot calls the kettle black

62] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

63] Self do, self have

64] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

65] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

66] No remedy but patience

67] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

68] Water is the king of food

69] Trust not the many-minded populace

70] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

71] A good conscience is a sure card

72] When bees area old, they yield n honey

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

74] An old dog barks not in vain

75] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

76] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

77] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

78] Bread is the staff of life.

79] Dirty water does not wash clean.

80] It is more blessed to give than to receive

81] Names are debts

82] A hungry man is angry man

83] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

84] Nothing seek, nothing find

85] An Englishman’s home is his castle

86] Homer sometimes nods

87] Where there is no might, right loses itself

88] Love sees no fault

89] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

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

91] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

92] Enough is as good as a feast

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

94] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

95] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

96] Respect is greater from a distance

97] A constant guest is never welcome

98] Practice is the science that gives confidence

99] Lose a leg rather than a life

100] Everyone to his taste