Famous Proverbs

1] Great actions speak minds

2] First come, first served

3] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

4] Silence and thinking can no man offend

5] Alms never make poor

6] Better eye sore than al blind

7] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

8] The pen is the tongue of the hand

9] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

10] The envious man shall never want woe

11] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

12] Despair gives courage to a coward

13] A good example is the best sermon

14] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

15] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

16] Children learn to creep ere they can go

17] A good heart cannot lie.

18] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

19] Vice makes virtue shine

20] Hunger is the best sauce

21] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

22] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

23] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

24] It is too late to husband when all is spent

25] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

26] Forgive and forget

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

28] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

29] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

30] Fair play’s a jewel

31] Every man has his faults

32] Great gain makes easy work

33] Kingdoms divided soon fall

34] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

35] He who has seen little marvels much

36] Great trees keep down the little ones

37] Remember, you are but a man

38] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

39] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

40] No one ought to judge in his own cause

41] Manners and money make a gentleman

42] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

43] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

44] He that repairs not a part, builds all

45] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

46] Tell a lie and stick to it.

47] Necessity is mother of invention

48] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

49] He who sows, trusts in God

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

51] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

52] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

53] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

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

55] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

56] Divide and rule

57] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

58] A man’s wealth is his enemy

59] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

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

61] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

62] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

63] As you sow, so shall you reap

64] Practice what you preach

65] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

66] Suffering does not manifest itself

67] The labourer is worthy of his hire

68] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

69] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

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

71] Wife and Children are bills of charges

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

73] Might is right

74] Without luck, it is better not to be born

75] A joke’s a very serious thing

76] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

77] Nature hates all sudden changes

78] Honour is the reward of virtue

79] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

80] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

81] He who comes first, grinds first.

82] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

83] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

84] Discretion is the better part of valour

85] He that lends, gives

86] He that obey cannot command

87] Open a book and you profit by what you read

88] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

89] One today is worth two tomorrows

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

91] He who serves is not free

92] A bully is always a coward

93] It is the unexpected that always happens

94] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

95] Stolen sweets are sweeter

96] Without diligence, no prize

97] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

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

99] Of one ill come many

100] Bear and forbear