Famous Proverbs

1] Step by step the ladder is ascended

2] Time lost cannot be recalled

3] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

4] Of evil manners, spring good laws

5] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

6] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

7] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

8] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

9] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

10] Love conquers all

11] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

12] Anger without power is folly

13] Men are blind in their own cause

14] Bread is the staff of life.

15] Union is strength.

16] Possibilities are infinite

17] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

18] No man is wise at all times

19] Silence is a woman’s best garment

20] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

21] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

22] Every dog has his (its) day

23] Blood is thicker than water

24] A man can die but once

25] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

26] The darkest place is under the candlestick

27] There is nothing new under the sun

28] One hand washes the other

29] God makes the back for the burden

30] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

31] The world is full of fools

32] Don’t play with fire

33] A bad padlock invites a picklock

34] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

35] Better belly burst than good meat lost

36] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

37] Too much cunning undoes

38] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

39] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

40] Misfortunes never come singly

41] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

42] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

43] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

44] Friends are thieves of time

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

46] Half a word is enough for a wise man

47] The child is father of the man

48] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

49] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

50] No flying without wings.

51] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

52] Nearest the heart comes out first

53] The resolved mind has no cares

54] Speech is silver, silence is golden

55] The race is got by running

56] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

57] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

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

59] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

60] He who teaches learns

61] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

62] Life is not all beer and skittles

63] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

64] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

65] Step by step the ladder is ascended

66] He that travels far knows much

67] Blood will have blood

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

69] Choose thy company before thy drink

70] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

71] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

72] Every shoe fits not every foot

73] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

74] Practice makes perfect

75] Everything new is fine

76] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

77] No land without stones, or meat without bones

78] Poverty is no sin

79] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

80] The thing which is rare is dear

81] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

82] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

83] If one will not, another will

84] You may know by a handful the whole sack

85] More haste, less speed

86] They brag most who can do least

87] Nature surpasses art

88] The best things are hard to come by.

89] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

90] The labour we delight in physics pain

91] Good wine needs no bush

92] A watched pot never boils

93] Rust wastes more than use

94] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

95] First impressions are the most lasting

96] The axe falls on a straight tree first

97] Fish and guests smell in three days

98] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

99] Experience must be bought

100] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy