Famous Proverbs

1] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

2] New brooms sweep clean

3] Every bean has its black

4] Spread the table, and contention will cease

5] Little things are pretty

6] One is never too old to learn

7] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

8] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

9] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

10] A good heart conquers ill fortune

11] All must be as God will

12] Delay is the antidote of anger

13] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

14] Necessity knows no law

15] Plain dealing is a jewel

16] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

17] Every dog has his (its) day

18] A mouse may help a lion

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

20] Good clothes open all doors

21] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

22] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

23] He thinks not well that thinks not again

24] That which proves too much proves nothing

25] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

26] Good words are worth much and cost little

27] We live by laws, not by examples

28] A good tongue is a good weapon

29] What may be done at any time is done at no time

30] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

31] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

32] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

33] Work expands so as to fill the time available

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

35] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

36] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

37] Vice makes virtue shine

38] There is no accounting for tastes

39] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

40] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

41] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

42] A still tongue makes a wise head

43] Bind the sack before it be full

44] A good heart cannot lie.

45] So many men, so many opinions

46] Marriage makes or mars a man

47] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

48] There is nothing like being on the safe side

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

50] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

51] A short cut is often a wrong cut

52] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

53] In peace, prepare for war

54] The biter is sometimes bit

55] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

56] Idle folks lack no excuses

57] A man’s wealth is his enemy

58] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

59] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

60] He that is born a fool is never cured

61] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

62] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

63] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

64] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

65] Love me, love the crows on my roof

66] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

67] Everyone to his taste

68] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

69] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

70] Danger makes men devout

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

72] Every medal has two sides

73] Honour is the reward of virtue

74] Quietness is a great treasure

75] The tongue stings

76] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

77] A short cut is often a wrong cut

78] He who comes first, grinds first.

79] Least said, soonest mended

80] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

81] Better belly burst than good meat lost

82] Death is the grand leveler

83] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

84] Beware of him who makes thee presents

85] Better late than never, but better never late

86] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

87] Gossiping and lying go together

88] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

89] Tell the truth and shame the devil

90] Practice what you preach

91] Never hit a man when he’s down

92] He knows most who speaks least

93] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

94] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

95] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

96] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

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

98] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

99] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

100] Good wine needs no bush