Famous Proverbs

1] Cast not the first stone.

2] He who wills the end, Wills the means

3] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

4] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

5] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

6] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

7] Make the best of a bad job

8] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

9] Prevention is better than cure

10] Wife and Children are bills of charges

11] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

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

13] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

14] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

15] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

16] Ill comes often on the back worse

17] Slow help is no help

18] Great oaks from little acorns grow

19] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

20] Things are only worth one makes them worth

21] No convenience without its inconvenience

22] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

23] Rich folk have many friends

24] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

25] History repeats itself

26] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

27] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

28] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

29] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

30] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

31] A good conscience is a soft pillow

32] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

33] New things are fair

34] Crowns have cares

35] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

36] He that obey cannot command

37] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

38] Lavishness is not generosity

39] A beggar can never be bankrupt

40] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

41] Love knows hidden paths

42] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

43] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

44] The best things carried to excess are wrong

45] Patience is a virtue

46] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

47] The mob tramples on the coward

48] He who hesitates is lost

49] Needs must when the evil drives

50] He is rich that has few wants

51] It is a shame to be shameless

52] So many countries, so many customs

53] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

54] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

55] There’s always room at the top

56] Bread is the staff of life.

57] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

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

59] Desires are nourished by delays

60] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

61] The first step is the hardest

62] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

63] A strong town is not won in an hour

64] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

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

66] The hole calls the thief

67] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

68] All’s fish that comes to the net

69] Far fowls have fair feather

70] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

71] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

72] It’s a long lane that has no turning

73] The hand that gives, gathers

74] Dirty water does not wash clean.

75] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

76] Look at the bright side

77] Misfortune makes foes of friends

78] Share and share alike

79] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

80] Take heed is a fair thing

81] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

82] Rip not up old sores

83] Lookers-on see most of the game

84] Prospect is often better than possession

85] Many a little makes a mickle

86] The best fish swim near the bottom

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

88] Nature hates all sudden changes

89] Pat any man and dust will fly

90] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

91] Example, is better than precept

92] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

93] He that repairs not a part, builds all

94] Judge not, that ye be not judged

95] Better the foot slip than the tongue

96] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

97] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

98] Well begun is half done.

99] He that wants health wants all

100] Opportunity seldom knocks twice