Famous Proverbs

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

2] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

3] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

4] Never grieve for what you cannot help

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

6] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

7] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

8] Youth will have its course.

9] The deed comes back upon the doer.

10] The longest day must have an end

11] There is no blindness like ignorance

12] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

13] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

14] A man with no hands is given a ring.

15] Money is the root of all evil

16] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

17] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

18] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

19] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

20] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

21] Every light has its shadow

22] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

23] Leave well alone

24] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

25] Rip not up old sores

26] A change is as good as rest

27] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

28] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

29] Penny and penny laid up will be many

30] Debt is an evil conscience

31] A learned man has always riches in himself

32] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

33] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

34] Variety takes away satiety

35] Will is no skill

36] Even water has its ebb and flow

37] Fair play’s a jewel

38] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

39] No choice amongst stinking fish

40] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

41] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

42] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

43] Everything would fain live

44] Keep something for a rainy day

45] Trust is the mother of deceit

46] Facts are stubborn things

47] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

48] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

49] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

50] A black hen lays a white egg

51] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

52] It is good fishing in troubled waters

53] Big words seldom go with good deeds

54] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

55] Crowns have cares

56] He who never was sick dies the first fit

57] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

58] Forgive and forget

59] What will not money do?

60] Delay is the antidote of anger

61] All doors open to courtesy

62] The thread breaks where it is weakest

63] Call no man happy till he is dead

64] Truth conquers all things

65] Delays are not denials

66] Morning dreams come true

67] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

68] Nothing comes from nothing

69] Love delights in praise

70] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

71] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

72] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

73] Don’t take your harp to the party

74] Hope is the poor man’s bread

75] Every flow must have its ebb

76] Grasp all, lose all

77] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

78] Work expands so as to fill the time available

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

80] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

81] Take time by the forelock

82] Every bean has its black

83] Time and tide wait for no man

84] He that travels far knows much

85] Seeing is believing

86] Great oaks from little acorns grow

87] Necessity breaks iron

88] Prove your friend ere you have need

89] Union is strength.

90] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

91] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

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

93] No man is born wise or learned

94] The early man ever borrows from the late man

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

96] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

97] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

98] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

99] He who does no good, does evil enough

100] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount