Famous Proverbs

1] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

2] Every cloud has a silver lining

3] He that is born a fool is never cured

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

5] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

6] Dreams go by contraries

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

8] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

9] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

10] Weapons breed peace

11] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

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

13] The race is got by running

14] Better the last smile than the first laugh

15] Wake not a sleeping lion

16] Fear of death is worse than death itself

17] When the word is out it belongs to another

18] He who teaches learns

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

20] No man is indispensable

21] Respect is greater from a distance

22] Self-praise is no recommendation

23] It is ill jesting with edged tools

24] He knows most who speaks least

25] Saying is one thing, and doing another

26] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

27] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

28] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

29] Pleasant hours fly past

30] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

31] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

32] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

33] Findings are keepings

34] The receiver is as bad as the thief

35] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

36] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

37] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

38] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

39] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

40] Once bitten, twice shy.

41] Custom makes all things easy

42] Findings are keepings

43] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

44] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

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

46] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

47] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

48] Curiosity killed the cat.

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

50] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

51] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

52] Children and chickens must be always picking

53] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

54] More than enough is too much

55] No man fears what he has seen grow

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

57] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

58] Let like mate with like

59] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

60] Every man praises his own wares

61] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

62] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

63] Good is good but better carries it

64] No man is wise at all times

65] By falling we learn to go safely

66] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

67] Sow thin and mow thin

68] Words fly, writings remain

69] Do not kick against the pricks

70] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

71] All things that great men do are well done

72] The faulty stands on his guard

73] Loyalty is worth more than money

74] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

75] All things are possible with god

76] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

77] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

78] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

79] Don’t cry before you are hurt

80] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

81] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

82] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

83] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

84] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

85] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

86] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

87] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

88] There is no redemption from hell

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

90] A mouse may help a lion

91] An old man is a bed full of bones

92] Wine is the best broom for trouble

93] Money is the only monarch

94] Morning dreams come true

95] If the cap fits, wear it

96] Words are but wind

97] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

98] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

99] He who never was sick dies the first fit

100] He that has no money needs no purse