Famous Proverbs

1] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

2] Clothes do not make the man

3] Easier said than done

4] He who does no good, does evil enough

5] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

6] A good example is the best sermon

7] Patient men with the day.

8] First thrive then wive

9] The word is far him who has patience

10] A good beginning is half the battle.

11] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

12] Better beg than steal.

13] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

14] Many a true word is spoken in jest

15] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

16] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

17] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

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

19] The garment worn determines how one is served

20] The greatest talkers are the least doers

21] Advice when most needed is least heeded

22] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

23] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

24] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

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

26] No cross, no crown

27] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

28] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

29] All griefs with bread are less

30] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

31] He who wills the end, Wills the means

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

33] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

34] The biter is sometimes bit

35] Faint heart never won fair lady

36] Morning dreams come true

37] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

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

39] Keep something for a rainy day

40] A woman’s work is never done

41] No honest man ever repented his honesty

42] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

43] It’s dogged that does it

44] In haste is error

45] A little impatience will spoil great plans

46] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

47] An evil life is a kind of death.

48] Riches along make no men happy

49] No garden without its weeds.

50] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

51] Once a knave, always a knave

52] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

53] Mirth is the sugar of life

54] Gluttony kills more than the sword

55] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

56] Praise is always pleasant

57] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

58] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

59] Love knows hidden paths

60] A bad padlock invites a picklock

61] It is the unexpected that always happens

62] Safety lies in the middle course

63] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

64] Second thoughts are best

65] Live and Learn

66] Rats know the ways of rats

67] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

68] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

69] One foot is better than two crutches

70] A bad excuse is better than none at all

71] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

72] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

73] A constant guest is never welcome

74] Wife and Children are bills of charges

75] Years know more than books

76] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

77] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

78] An old fox is not easily snared

79] The axe falls on a straight tree first

80] Words and feathers the wind carries away

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

82] Variety is the spice of life

83] A man in debt is caught in a net

84] Good wine needs no bush

85] Where there is peace, there is blessing

86] Spend and be free, but make no waste

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

88] Words and feathers the wind carries away

89] What is deferred is not abandoned

90] All men are mortal

91] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

92] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

93] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

94] A mouse may help a lion

95] No man fears what he has seen grow

96] All is vanity.

97] Wrong has no warrant

98] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

99] After a storm comes a calm

100] Pardon makes offenders