Famous Proverbs

1] Self do, self have

2] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

3] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

4] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

5] Numbers overcome the brave

6] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

7] Expectation is better than realisation

8] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

9] Beauty draws more than oxen

10] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

11] A good conscience is a constant feast

12] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

13] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

14] Never refuse a good offer

15] They say so’ is half a lie

16] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

17] Tempt not a desperate man

18] Children learn to creep ere they can go

19] Cheats never prosper

20] Like mother, like daughter

21] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

22] Ill comes often on the back worse

23] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

24] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

25] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

26] Anger without power is folly

27] You cannot have your cake and eat it

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

29] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

30] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

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

32] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

33] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

34] Trust not the many-minded populace

35] Blood is thicker than water

36] Diamond cuts diamond

37] Care is no cure

38] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

39] One man’s means another man’s poison

40] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

41] Stolen sweets are sweeter

42] Strike while the iron is hot

43] Cast not the first stone.

44] Self do, self have

45] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

46] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

47] What can’t be cured must be endured

48] Ill luck is good for something

49] Prove your friend ere you have need

50] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

51] Soon gotten, soon spent

52] Much babbling is not without offence

53] The fox may grow grey, but never good

54] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

55] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

56] Fish begins to stink at the head

57] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

58] There is nothing that costs less than civility

59] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

60] It is all in the day’s work

61] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

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

63] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

64] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

65] The word is far him who has patience

66] No road is long with good company

67] Men are known by the company they keep.

68] It is never too late to mend

69] Pursuits become habits

70] Advice when most needed is least heeded

71] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

72] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

73] The falling drops hollow the stone

74] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

75] The faulty stands on his guard

76] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

77] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

78] Call a spade a spade

79] In peace, prepare for war

80] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

81] Fair exchange is no robbery

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

83] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

84] An honest good look covers many faults.

85] The bull must be taken by the horns

86] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

87] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

88] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

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

90] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

91] He that blows best, bears away the horn

92] The resolved mind has no cares

93] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

94] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

95] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

96] He who touches pitch will be defiled

97] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

98] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

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

100] An evil life is a kind of death.