Famous Proverbs

1] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

2] Never too late to repent

3] Marriage is a lottery

4] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

5] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

6] He who comes late must eat what is left

7] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

8] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

9] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

10] Beware of him who makes thee presents

11] A word spoken is past recalling

12] Nature does nothing in vain

13] Double charge will rive a cannon

14] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

15] Covetousness breaks the sack

16] Homo is a common name to all men.

17] Few words are best

18] So many countries, so many customs

19] All things are difficult before they are easy

20] Men are not angles

21] Save your breath to cool the porridge

22] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

23] He that seeks trouble never misses

24] The fairest flowers soonest fade

25] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

26] Have two strings to your bow

27] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

28] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

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

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

31] Even Homer sometimes nods

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

33] It is ill striving against the stream

34] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

35] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

36] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

37] Youth and age will never agree

38] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

39] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

40] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

41] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

42] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

43] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

44] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

45] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

46] Her that is down need fear no fall

47] Moderation in all things

48] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

49] Love and business teach eloquence

50] Second thoughts are best

51] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

52] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

53] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

54] Better unborn than untaught

55] Better an open enemy than a false friend

56] A jest breaks no bones

57] Many eyes upon the king

58] Better to ask the way than go astray.

59] See how the wind blows

60] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

61] Wine unveils the words of the heart

62] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

63] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

64] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

65] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

66] Step by step the ladder is ascended

67] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

68] Far from eye, far from heart

69] Man does what he can, and God what he will

70] Where there is peace, there is blessing

71] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

72] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

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

74] He that brings good news, knocks hard

75] A good conscience is a soft pillow

76] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

77] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

78] Great actions speak minds

79] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

80] No road is long with good company

81] Children should be seen and not heard

82] Hitch your wagon to a star

83] Death is the grand leveler

84] Example is better than precept

85] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

86] Exchange is no robbery

87] See which way the cat jumps

88] As you brew, so shall you drink.

89] Bad excuses are worse than none.

90] A healthy man is a successful man

91] The exception proves the rule

92] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

93] Man proposes, God disposes

94] Necessity knows no law

95] The weeds overgrow the corn.

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

97] In the end, things will mend

98] Valour delights in the test

99] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

100] Good company on the road is the shortest cut