Famous Proverbs

1] Findings are keepings

2] Better to be safe than sorry.

3] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

4] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

5] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

6] The money you refuse will never do you good

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

8] He who owes is in all the wrong

9] Morning dreams come true

10] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

11] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

12] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

13] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

14] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

15] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

16] God helps those who help themselves

17] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

18] Help a lame dog over a stile

19] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

20] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

21] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

22] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

23] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

24] What’s done cannot be undone

25] Ignorance is the peace of life

26] Variety is the spice of life

27] Heaven helps those who help themselves

28] He that eats well should do his duty well

29] A good Conscience is the best divinity

30] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

31] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

32] Better be born lucky than wise.

33] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

34] No garden without its weeds.

35] Out of debt, out of danger

36] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

37] Money refused loses its brightness

38] Know thyself

39] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

40] Repentance is a bitter physic

41] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

42] No garden without its weeds.

43] Let bygones be bygones

44] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

45] Gifts blind the eyes.

46] An egg thief will become a camel thief

47] No tie can oblige the perfidious

48] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

49] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

50] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

51] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

52] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

53] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

54] Intimacy lessens fame

55] God sends cold after Clothes

56] Business is business

57] He who never was sick dies the first fit

58] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

59] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

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

61] Kingdoms divided soon fall

62] There is nothing like being on the safe side

63] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

64] Necessity is mother of invention

65] Take away fuel, take away flame

66] We soon believe what we desire

67] Poverty is the mother of crime

68] Every law has a loophole

69] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

70] He that ventures not fails not.

71] Ready money is a ready remedy

72] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

73] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

74] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

75] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

76] There’s always room at the top

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

78] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

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

80] A word spoken is past recalling

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

82] A goose drinks as much as gander

83] Appetite comes with eating

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

85] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

86] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

87] He that repairs not a part, builds all

88] Great actions speak minds

89] As you bake, so shall you eat.

90] Out of sight, out of mind

91] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

92] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

93] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

94] A hungry man smells meat afar off

95] Excessive happiness produces pain

96] Youth will have its course.

97] Let the buyer beware

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

99] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

100] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards