Famous Proverbs

1] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

2] Many drops make a shower

3] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

4] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

5] Once bitten, twice shy.

6] Health without money is half an ague

7] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

8] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

9] A golden key opens every door

10] All men are mortal

11] Four eyes see more than two

12] Like mother, like daughter

13] Birds of a feather flock together

14] Names and natures do often agree

15] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

16] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

17] Do not wear out your welcome

18] Beware of a silent man and still water

19] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

20] Lend your money and lose a friend

21] Blood is thicker than water

22] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

23] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

24] Worse things happen at sea

25] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

26] It is too late to husband when all is spent

27] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

28] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

29] Every groom is a king at home

30] Much law but little justice

31] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

32] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

33] Lovers are madmen

34] Will is the cause of woe

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

36] The race is got by running

37] Knowledge is power

38] Use makes mastery

39] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

40] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

41] All glory comes from daring to begin

42] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

43] First things first

44] Names are debts

45] Good hand, good hire

46] We live by laws, not by examples

47] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

48] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

49] Nothing seek, nothing find

50] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

51] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

52] Good counsel never comes amiss

53] The dog that fetches, will carry.

54] When in doubt, do nothing

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

56] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

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

58] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

59] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

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

61] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

62] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

63] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

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

65] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

66] Desires are nourished by delays

67] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

68] Quickly come, quickly go

69] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

70] God’s lambs will play.

71] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

72] Friends are thieves of time

73] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

74] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

75] The longest day must have an end

76] Might is right

77] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

78] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

79] Love sees no fault

80] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

81] Poverty is no sin

82] Half an egg is better than empty shell

83] Two blacks do not make a white

84] It’s a long lane that has no turning

85] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

86] He has not lost all who has one cast left

87] Love conquers all

88] There is safety in numbers

89] Dirty linen should be washed at home

90] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

91] Keep some till further more come

92] A good conscience is a sure card

93] The deed comes back upon the doer.

94] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

95] Pat any man and dust will fly

96] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

97] There’s always room at the top

98] Wash your dirty linen at home

99] Good luck beats early rising

100] By falling we learn to go safely