Famous Proverbs

1] The good die young.

2] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

3] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

4] Necessity is a powerful weapon

5] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

6] A good name is sooner lost than won

7] Little things are pretty

8] Standing pools gather fifth

9] In haste is error

10] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

11] Half a loaf is better than do bread

12] High places have their precipices

13] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

14] A joke’s a very serious thing

15] Never too late to late to repent

16] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

17] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

18] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

19] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

20] Pardon makes offenders

21] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

22] Set a thief to catch a thief

23] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

24] No sweet without sweat

25] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

26] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

27] Money is the sinews of war

28] Much law but little justice

29] He that desires but little has no deed of much

30] He that speaks not, God hears not

31] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

32] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

33] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

34] Almost’ never killed a fly.

35] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

36] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

37] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

38] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

39] The first blow is half the battle

40] He that has a wife, has strife

41] At open doors, dogs come in

42] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

43] Live and Learn

44] Pat any man and dust will fly

45] A house divided against itself cannot stand

46] Good luck beats early rising

47] As you bake, so shall you eat.

48] The falling drops hollow the stone

49] A hungry man is angry man

50] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

51] At a good bargain thinks twice

52] Circumstances alter cases

53] Better no doctor at all than three.

54] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

55] Nature is the true law

56] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

57] One man’s loss is another’s gain

58] Ambition loses many a man

59] A man’s mother is his other God

60] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

61] All truths are not to be told

62] Even silence may be eloquent

63] There is no tree but bears some fruit

64] Youth will have its course.

65] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

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

67] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

68] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

69] Hasty work, double work,

70] Men are blind in their own cause

71] A hungry man is angry man

72] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

73] One is not smelt where all stink

74] None so busy as those who do nothing.

75] Trusting often makes fidelity

76] A change is as good as rest

77] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

78] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

79] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

80] Covetousness breaks the sack

81] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

82] Loyalty is worth more than money

83] After the extreme of cold comes spring

84] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

85] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

86] Like question, like answer.

87] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

88] Love sees no fault

89] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

90] For a web begun, God sends the thread

91] An army marches on its stomach

92] Error cannot be defended but by error

93] All truths are not to be told

94] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

95] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

96] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

97] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

98] Never buy a pig in a poke

99] Those near the temple deride the gods

100] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden