Famous Proverbs

1] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

2] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

3] You cannot serve God and Mammon

4] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

5] A good example is the best sermon

6] One cannot put back the clock

7] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

8] There’s a black sheep in every flock

9] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

10] A good drink makes the old young

11] What is worse than ill luck?

12] Cut your coat according to your cloth

13] It is too late to call back yesterday

14] Things past cannot be recalled

15] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

16] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

17] The great would have none great, and the little all little

18] It is the first step that is troublesome

19] Better an open enemy than a false friend

20] Ambition loses many a man

21] Where there’s muck, there’s money

22] A good name is better than a golden girdle

23] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

24] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

25] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

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

27] A soft answer turns away wrath

28] Needs must when the devil drives

29] The tongue stings

30] Rich folk have many friends

31] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

32] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

33] Every little helps

34] Rust wastes more than use

35] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

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

37] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

38] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

39] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

40] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

41] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

42] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

43] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

44] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

45] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

46] As long lives a merry man as a sad

47] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

48] It is easier to pull down than to build

49] Danger makes men devout

50] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

51] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

52] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

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

54] First impressions are most lasting

55] It takes two to make a quarrel

56] The good is often the enemy of the best

57] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

58] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

59] A rolling stone gathers no moss

60] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

61] Easier said than done

62] Many a little makes a mickle

63] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

64] The best of men are but men at best.

65] As you bake, so shall you eat.

66] Many a true word is spoken in jest

67] He who leaps high must take a long run

68] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

69] When bees area old, they yield n honey

70] Self-praise is no recommendation

71] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

72] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

73] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

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

75] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

76] Dying men speak true

77] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

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

79] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

80] Woes unite foes

81] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

82] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

83] Every bean has its black

84] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

85] The labour we delight in physics pain

86] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

87] Nothing is given so freely as advice

88] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

89] That which is easily done is soon believed

90] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

91] One must howl with the wolves

92] Accidents will happen

93] Fools rejoice at promises

94] Soon gotten, soon spent

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

96] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

97] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

98] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

99] A golden key opens every door

100] When meat is in anger is out