Famous Proverbs

1] Other times, other manners

2] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

3] Empty vessels make the most noise

4] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

5] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

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

7] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

8] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

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

10] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

11] As long lives a merry man as a sad

12] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

13] An angry man is not fit to pray

14] He that talks much, errs much

15] Bare walls make giddy housewives

16] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

17] Keep some till further more come

18] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

19] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

20] Do not kick against the pricks

21] Like question, like answer.

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

23] If one will not, another will

24] The longest night will have an end

25] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

26] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

27] A watched pot never boils

28] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

29] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

30] No man is a hero to his valet

31] A friend is easier lost than found

32] Error cannot be defended but by error

33] Every man to his trade.

34] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

35] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

36] A good name is better than a golden girdle

37] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

38] Look before you leap

39] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

40] Once a use and ever a custom

41] New things are fair

42] Bad excuses are worse than none.

43] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

44] The goat must browse where she is tied

45] No honest man ever repented his honesty

46] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

47] Beware of a silent man and still water

48] Empty vessels make the most sound

49] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

50] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

51] He that eats least eats most

52] What is the mother of industry

53] Better beg than steal.

54] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

55] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

56] No wrong without a remedy

57] He is rich that has few wants

58] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

59] Youth and age will never agree

60] Appearances are deceptive

61] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

62] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

63] Far from eye, far from heart

64] Some are wise and some are otherwise

65] Too much hope deceives

66] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

67] A good heart conquers ill fortune

68] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

69] Like father, like son

70] None so deaf as those that will not hear

71] You may know by a handful the whole sack

72] Don’t cry stinking fish

73] Now is now, and then was then

74] Every little helps

75] No pain, no cure

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

77] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

78] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

79] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

80] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

81] Think of ease, but work on.

82] Actions speak louder than words

83] Choose thy company before thy drink

84] Slow help is no help

85] Never too late to learn

86] A good beginning is half the battle.

87] Make hay while the sun shines

88] Almost’ never killed a fly.

89] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

90] A little help is worth a deal of pity

91] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

92] The more you get, the more you want

93] No garden without its weeds.

94] Diligence is the mother of good luck

95] He that has no money needs no purse

96] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

97] Never too late to repent

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

99] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

100] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams