Famous Proverbs

1] Garbage in, garbage out

2] Pride goes before a fall

3] Ignorance is the peace of life

4] He knows which side his bread is buttered

5] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

6] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

7] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

8] What is worse than ill luck?

9] A man with no hands is given a ring.

10] Ill news comes unsent for.

11] Be just before you are generous

12] Time has wings

13] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

14] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

15] Better never begin than never make an end

16] You cannot have your cake and eat it

17] Waste makes wants

18] His bark is worse than his bite

19] Like question, like answer.

20] Repentance comes too late

21] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

22] A jack of all traders is master of none

23] Forewarned is forearmed

24] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

25] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

26] Gluttony kills more than the sword

27] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

28] Valour delights in the test

29] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

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

31] Take things as you find them

32] Better be safe than sorry

33] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

34] There is nothing new under the sun

35] A good paymaster needs no surety

36] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

37] Great barkers are no biters

38] It is a great victory that comes without blood

39] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

40] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

41] Better sit still than rise and fall

42] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

43] Money has no smell

44] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

45] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

46] Affection blinds reason

47] Fair play’s a jewel

48] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

49] Experience is good if not bought too dear

50] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

51] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

52] While there is life, there is hope

53] When the word is out it belongs to another

54] Clothes do not make the man

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

56] He that blows best, bears away the horn

57] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

58] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

59] There is honour among thieves

60] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

61] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

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

63] He that knows little often repeats it

64] No one betrays himself by silence

65] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

66] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

67] Heaven helps those who help themselves

68] Dying is as natural as living

69] Give the devil his due

70] A piece of churchyard fits every body

71] In doing we learn.

72] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

73] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

74] Time lost cannot be recalled

75] The love of money is the root of all evil

76] Expectation is better than realisation

77] The cowl does not make the monk.

78] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

79] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

80] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

81] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

82] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

83] Enough is enough

84] He that travels far knows much

85] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

86] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

87] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

88] The end makes all equal

89] A house divided against itself cannot stand

90] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

91] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

92] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

93] Books and friends should be few but good

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

95] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

96] Put not the bucket too often in the well

97] It is easier to pull down than to build

98] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

99] Virtue is the only true nobility

100] A penny saved is a penny gained