Famous Proverbs

1] Comparisons are odious

2] Law makers should not be law breakers

3] Idle folks have the least leisure

4] Dirty linen should be washed at home

5] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

6] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

7] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

8] The end crowns the work.

9] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

10] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

11] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

12] Good broth may be made in an old pot

13] The labour we delight in physics pain

14] Homo is a common name to all men.

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

16] III counsel mars all

17] Practice is the science that gives confidence

18] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

19] Delay is the antidote of anger

20] Beware of him who makes thee presents

21] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

22] Much learning makes men mad

23] Charity begins at home.

24] Easier said than done

25] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

26] Stolen sweets are sweeter

27] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

28] He that is absent is soon forgotten

29] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

30] The value of money is having it.

31] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

32] He laughs best who laughs last

33] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

34] Work won’t kill but worry will.

35] From word to deed is a great space

36] Where there are reeds, there is water

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

38] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

39] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

40] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

41] Parents are patterns

42] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

43] No news is good news

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

45] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

46] Hope often deludes the foolish man

47] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

48] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

49] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

50] Every oak has been an acorn

51] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

52] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

53] Fire is a good servant a bad master

54] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

55] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

56] Man cannot live by bread alone

57] Paddle your own canoe

58] Death is the grand leveler

59] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

60] The receiver is as bad as the thief

61] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

62] Parents are patterns

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

64] Wedlock is padlock

65] It’s dogged that does it

66] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

67] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

68] Every medal has two sides

69] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

70] No pains, no gains

71] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

72] One lie makes many

73] A joke’s a very serious thing

74] Once a use and ever a custom

75] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

76] Love me, love the crows on my roof

77] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

78] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

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

80] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

81] Poverty is no sin

82] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

83] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

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

85] Tomorrow is another day

86] Harp not for ever on the same string

87] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

88] The money you refuse will never do you good

89] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

90] What everybody says must be true

91] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

92] Every law has a loophole

93] History repeats itself

94] He that has no money needs no purse

95] Marriages are made in heaven

96] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

97] Open confession is good for the soul

98] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

99] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

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