Famous Proverbs

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

2] Beggars must not be choosers

3] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

4] Many a little makes a mickle

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

6] Idleness is the root of all evil

7] Don’t tell tales out of school

8] Where there are reeds, there is water

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

10] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

11] Desire beautifies what is ugly

12] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

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

14] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

15] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

16] Wake not a sleeping lion

17] It is a shame to be shameless

18] It is well to live that one may learn

19] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

20] Fortune favours fools

21] The best things come in small packages

22] Every dog is a lion at home

23] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

24] Extremes meet

25] He is an ill husband who is not missed

26] Forecast is better than work-hard

27] The tongue talks at the heads cost

28] Self-praise is no recommendation

29] Bread is the staff of life.

30] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

31] Fine words dress ill deeds

32] Slow help is no help

33] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

34] Everything is good in its season

35] Fingers were made before forks

36] Knowledge is power

37] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

38] How forceful are right words

39] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

40] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

41] Long life has long misery

42] None can guess the jewel by the casket

43] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

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

45] Learning is the eye of the mind

46] You can’t tell a book by its cover

47] He that has no money needs no purse

48] Look before you leap

49] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

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

51] Enough is enough

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

53] East or west, home is best

54] Out of debt, out of danger

55] The slowest barker is the surest biter

56] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

57] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

58] The righteous man sins before an open chest

59] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

60] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

61] Like mistress, like maid

62] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

63] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

64] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

65] The race is got by running

66] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

67] He conquers who endures

68] From small beginnings come great things

69] He that promises too much means nothing

70] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

71] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

72] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

73] Better be alone than in bad company

74] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

75] You never know your luck

76] A goose drinks as much as gander

77] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

78] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

79] Good fame is better than a good face

80] A fool may give a wise man counsel

81] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

82] Praise no man till he is dead.

83] Poverty is no sin

84] In wine there is truth

85] Grasp all, lose all

86] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

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

88] Names and natures do often agree

89] One swallow does not make a summer

90] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

91] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

92] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

93] Stolen sweets are sweeter

94] Double charge will rive a cannon

95] Conscience does make cowards of us all

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

97] Fools grow without watering.

98] Black will take no other hue

99] After a storm comes a calm

100] Wine unveils the words of the heart