Famous Proverbs

1] The sign brings customers

2] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

3] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

4] Not even Hercules could contend against two

5] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

6] Names and natures do often agree

7] Failure teaches success

8] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

9] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

10] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

11] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

12] Never buy a pig in a poke

13] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

14] Anything will fit a naked man.

15] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

16] Our own opinion is never wrong

17] Necessity breaks iron

18] Every medal has two sides

19] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

20] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

21] Better an open enemy than a false friend

22] Once a use and ever a custom

23] Tomorrow never comes

24] Precept begins, examples accomplish

25] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

26] You may know by a handful the whole sack

27] Homo is a common name to all men.

28] Appearances are deceptive

29] Wine is the best broom for trouble

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

31] A good beginning is half the battle.

32] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

33] Nature will have her course

34] Prove your friend ere you have need

35] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

36] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

37] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

38] Eat to live and not live to eat.

39] The deed comes back upon the doer.

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

41] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

42] Harp not for ever on the same string

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

44] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

45] Circumstances alter cases

46] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

47] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

48] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

49] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

50] The wisest of the wise may err.

51] Money has no smell

52] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

53] The labourer is worthy of his hire

54] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

55] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

56] Findings are keepings

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

58] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

59] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

60] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

61] An ill tongue may do much

62] Dead men don’t bite

63] Good to begin well, better to end well.

64] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

65] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

66] Cheap is dear in the long run.

67] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

68] He that has an ill name is half hanged

69] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

70] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

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

72] The poor suffer all the wrong

73] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

74] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

75] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

76] Even Homer sometimes nods

77] He gives twice who gives quickly

78] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

79] A hedge between keeps friendship green

80] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

81] Quietness is a great treasure

82] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

83] Facts are stubborn things

84] Better an open enemy than a false friend

85] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

86] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

87] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

88] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

89] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

90] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

91] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

92] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

93] The bull must be taken by the horns

94] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

95] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

96] III counsel mars all

97] A good lawyer must be a great liar

98] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

99] A man of courage never wants weapons

100] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it