Famous Proverbs

1] A good wife makes a good husband

2] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

3] Every cloud has a silver lining

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

5] One lie makes many

6] It costs more to do ill than to do well

7] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

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

9] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

10] No man so good but another may be as good as he

11] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

12] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

13] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

14] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

15] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

16] Time has wings

17] New meat begets a new appetite

18] A man without a wife is but half a man

19] Wiles help weak folk

20] A black hen lays a white egg

21] Discontent is the first step in progress

22] Better say noting than no to the purpose

23] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

24] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

25] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

26] He knows the water best who has waded through it

27] Revenge never repairs an injury

28] Covetousness breaks the sack

29] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

30] Love cannot be compelled

31] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

32] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

33] Gold will not buy everything

34] First thrive then wive

35] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

36] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

37] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

38] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

39] God made the country ,and man made the town

40] Don’t try to run before you walk

41] A jest breaks no bones

42] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

43] Wishes can never fill a sack

44] It is useless to flog a dead horse

45] His bark is worse than his bite

46] A good heart conquers ill fortune

47] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

48] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

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

50] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

51] Things are seldom what they seem.

52] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

53] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

54] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

55] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

56] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

57] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

58] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

59] Love delights in praise

60] Wisdom is better than strength

61] Half a loaf is better than do bread

62] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

63] All roads lead to Rome

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

65] A joke’s a very serious thing

66] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

67] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

68] Flesh is frail

69] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

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

71] The slowest barker is the surest biter

72] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

73] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

74] He that is born a fool is never cured

75] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

76] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

77] There is many a fair thing full false

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

79] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

80] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

81] Hunger is the teacher of many

82] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

83] When wine sinks, words swim

84] Never spend your money before you have it

85] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

86] Better to be safe than sorry.

87] Common fame is seldom to blame

88] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

89] God’s help is better than the early rising

90] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

91] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

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

93] The good intention excuses the bad action

94] Grasp all, lose all

95] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

96] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

97] Many words, many buffets

98] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

99] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

100] The reason of the strongest is always the best.