Famous Proverbs

1] Do as you would be done by

2] God sends cold after Clothes

3] A miss is as good as a mile

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

5] Diamond cuts diamond

6] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

7] As long lives a merry man as a sad

8] The devil is not as black as he is painted

9] The borrower is servant to the lender

10] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

11] There is no smoke without fire

12] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

13] The game is not worth the candle

14] A living dog is better than a dead lion

15] He that lives ill, fear follows him

16] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

17] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

18] One may change the place but not the mind.

19] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

20] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

21] Our own opinion is never wrong

22] There is a great difference between words and deeds

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

24] Put out your tubs when it is raining

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

26] There is no rose without a thorn

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

28] Life is not all beer and skittles

29] Ill news comes apace.

30] Go not to hell for company

31] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

32] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

33] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

34] Small is the seed of every greatness

35] No man is infallible

36] A little impatience will spoil great plans

37] Mirth is the sugar of life

38] Variety takes away satiety

39] Many words, many buffets

40] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

41] Appetite comes with eating

42] When the word is out it belongs to another

43] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

44] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

45] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

46] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

47] When one door shuts, another opens

48] Boys will be boys

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

50] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

51] You cannot make bricks without straw

52] A good drink makes the old young

53] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

54] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

55] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

56] The worse luck now, the better another time

57] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

58] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

59] Every man must carry his own cross

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

61] There is no accounting for tastes

62] Don’t meet trouble half-way

63] Better belly burst than good meat lost

64] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

65] Nature is the true law

66] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

67] The voice is the best music

68] Too much hope deceives

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

70] Every man to his trade.

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

72] The garment worn determines how one is served

73] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

74] A good beginning makes a good ending.

75] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

76] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

77] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

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

79] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

80] He that brings good news, knocks hard

81] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

82] All’s fair in love and war

83] Dreams go by contraries

84] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

85] Money is power

86] Step by step the ladder is ascended

87] Diligence is the mother of good luck

88] You can’t clap with one hand

89] All griefs with bread are less

90] Fine words dress ill deeds

91] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

92] Change of pasture makes fat calves

93] The good intention excuses the bad action

94] It is not work that kills but worry

95] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

96] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

97] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

98] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

99] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

100] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string