Famous Proverbs

1] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

2] It is as natural to die as to be born

3] Kindness lies in one side of the house

4] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

5] Death is the grand leveler

6] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

7] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

8] Better be born lucky than wise.

9] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

10] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

11] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

12] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

13] Children should be seen and not heard

14] Use makes mastery

15] One man sows and another reaps

16] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

17] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

18] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

19] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

20] Love turns pimples

21] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

22] Mercy surpasses justice

23] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

24] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

25] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

26] In peace, prepare for war

27] The game is not worth the candle

28] He gives twice who gives quickly

29] The hole calls the thief

30] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

31] Seeing is believing

32] First think, and then speak

33] None but the brave deserves the fair

34] Forecast is better than work-hard

35] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

36] No remedy but patience

37] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

38] A good wife makes a good husband

39] Suffering does not manifest itself

40] It is useless to flog a dead horse

41] Sickness soaks the purse

42] Nothing succeeds like success

43] The world is full of fools

44] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

45] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

46] A hungry man smells meat afar off

47] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

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

49] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

50] Silence is golden

51] Content is better than riches

52] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

53] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

54] Pleasant hours fly past

55] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

56] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

57] Often and little eating makes a man fat

58] Divine grace was never slow

59] At open doors, dogs come in

60] Every shoe fits not every foot

61] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

62] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

63] Exchange is no robbery

64] A true friend is forever a friend

65] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

66] Half a word is enough for a wise man

67] Better beg than steal.

68] Truth is mighty and will prevail

69] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

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

71] There is no rose without a thorn

72] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

73] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

74] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

75] Judge not, that ye be not judged

76] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

77] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

78] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

79] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

80] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

81] Vice makes virtue shine

82] Dying men speak true

83] New brooms sweep clean

84] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

85] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

86] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

87] They are rich who have true friends

88] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

89] Too much hope deceives

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

91] Wrong never comes right

92] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

93] Friendship should not be all on one

94] All covet all lose.

95] Success has many friends

96] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

97] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

98] Years know more than books

99] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

100] In fair weather prepare for foul