Famous Proverbs

1] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

2] Love me, love the crows on my roof

3] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

4] Long life has long misery

5] Without diligence, no prize

6] Love turns pimples

7] There is nothing new under the sun

8] Many hands make light work

9] What is worth doing is worth doing well

10] Prevention is better than cure

11] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

12] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

13] He who sows, trusts in God

14] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

15] Moderation in all things

16] A good servant must have good wages

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

18] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

19] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

20] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

21] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

22] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

23] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

24] The mob tramples on the coward

25] Art improves Nature

26] Choose thy company before thy drink

27] Train the child in the way he should go.

28] The last drop makes the cup run over

29] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

30] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

31] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

32] A light purse makes a heavy heart

33] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

34] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

35] Be just before you are generous

36] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

37] While there is life, there is hope

38] Prospect is often better than possession

39] Time lost cannot be recalled

40] A fool and his money are soon parted

41] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

42] Eat to live and not live to eat.

43] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

44] He who touches pitch will be defiled

45] Do not kick against the pricks

46] No one betrays himself by silence

47] All glory comes from daring to begin

48] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

49] The beaten road is the safest

50] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

51] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

52] All our pomp the earth covers

53] A little body often harbours a great soul

54] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

55] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

56] Better be alone than in bad company

57] Once a knave, always a knave

58] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

59] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

60] Every path has a puddle

61] Poverty parts friendship

62] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

63] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

64] God made the country ,and man made the town

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

66] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

67] You can’t take it with you when you die

68] No honest man ever repented his honesty

69] Every bean has its black

70] There’s always room at the top

71] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

72] He who comes first, grinds first.

73] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

74] All good things must come to an end

75] Penny and penny laid up will be many

76] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

77] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

78] Alms never make poor

79] He that speaks well, flights well

80] There are more ways to the wood than one.

81] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

82] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

83] Things past cannot be recalled

84] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

85] Home is home though it be never so homely

86] From small beginnings come great things

87] III luck is good for something

88] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

89] Desert and reward seldom keep company

90] A good garden may have some ill weeds

91] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

92] Love me, love the crows on my roof

93] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

94] Love can find a way

95] Make the best of a bad job

96] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

97] Love delights in praise

98] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

99] Discontent is the first step in progress

100] The fairest flowers soonest fade