Famous Proverbs

1] It is a great victory that comes without blood

2] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

3] Don’t tell tales out of school

4] Man punishes the action but God the intention

5] Give and spend, and God will send

6] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

7] Too long burden makes weary bones

8] A good dog deserves a good bone

9] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

10] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

11] Big words seldom go with good deeds

12] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

13] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

14] Standing pools gather fifth

15] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

16] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

17] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

18] Patience is a virtue

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

20] They also serve who only stand and wait

21] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

22] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

23] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

24] Will is the cause of woe

25] Wink at small faults

26] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

27] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

28] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

29] Grin and bear it

30] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

31] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

32] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

33] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

34] Practice makes perfect

35] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

36] The best of friends must part

37] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

38] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

39] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

40] Call a spade a spade

41] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

42] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

43] Like mother, like daughter

44] The beaten road is the safest

45] None so blind as those who will not see

46] Kindness lies in one side of the house

47] Where there’s a will there’s a way

48] Barking dogs seldom bite

49] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

50] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

51] Wise men propose, and fools determine

52] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

53] God’s help is better than the early rising

54] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

55] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

56] He who wills the end, Wills the means

57] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

58] Ambition loses many a man

59] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

60] Help a lame dog over a stile

61] Sorrow will pay no debt

62] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

63] A constant guest is never welcome

64] One barber shaves another gratis

65] What is word but wind?

66] Fair without, false within

67] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

68] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

69] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

70] Praises fill not the belly

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

72] Long absent, soon forgotten

73] Men are not to be measured in inches

74] There is honour among thieves

75] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

76] Like mistress, like maid

77] Even reckoning makes long friends

78] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

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

80] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

81] Of three main roads, take the middle one

82] A good heart conquers ill fortune

83] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

84] In indecision itself, grief is present.

85] It is easier to pull down than to build

86] They are rich who have true friends

87] It is the first step that is troublesome

88] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

89] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

90] Much learning makes men mad

91] All’s fair in love and war

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

93] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

94] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

95] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

96] Of three main roads, take the middle one

97] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

98] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

99] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

100] He is an ill husband who is not missed