Famous Proverbs

1] Put out your tubs when it is raining

2] A good name is better than a golden girdle

3] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

4] All is vanity.

5] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

6] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

7] Love will find a way

8] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

9] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

10] Things past cannot be recalled

11] Wrong never comes right

12] Hope is grief’s best music

13] The greatest talkers are the least doers

14] Everything comes to him who waits

15] A good lawyer must be a great liar

16] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

17] There is a black sheep in every flock

18] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

19] After the extreme of cold comes spring

20] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

21] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

22] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

23] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

24] First impressions are half the battle

25] Trust not the many-minded populace

26] No man limps because another is hurt

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

28] Love is sweet torment

29] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

30] No one ought to judge in his own cause

31] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

32] All is fair in love and war

33] It is too late to call back yesterday

34] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

35] Fortune is blind

36] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

37] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

38] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

39] He that has no shame has no conscience

40] Better eye sore than al blind

41] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

42] They that dance must pay the fiddler

43] First come, first served

44] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

45] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

46] Adventures are to be adventurous

47] You win some, you lose some

48] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

49] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

50] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

51] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

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

53] Let sleeping dogs lie

54] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

55] Our own opinion is never wrong

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

57] Clothes do not make the man

58] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

59] An angry man is not fit to pray

60] It is not every question that deserves an answer

61] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

62] Despair gives courage to a coward

63] He who wills the end, Wills the means

64] A light purse makes a heavy heart

65] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

66] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

67] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

68] Sickness shows us what we are

69] Vice makes virtue shine

70] Even Homer sometimes nods

71] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

72] Strike while the iron is hot

73] Mirth is the sugar of life

74] Covetousness brings nothing home

75] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

76] Truth is god’s daughter

77] The owl thinks her own young fairest

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

79] Some are wise and some are otherwise

80] Save your breath to cool the porridge

81] Beware of a silent man and still water

82] So many countries, so many customs

83] Clothes do not make the man

84] Ill news comes apace.

85] None but the brave deserves the fair

86] Work expands so as to fill the time available

87] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

88] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

89] Silence is a woman’s best garment

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

91] Jack is as good as his master

92] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

93] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

94] Ill gotten, ill spent

95] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

96] A soft answer turns away wrath

97] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

98] Never too late to repent

99] Valour delights in the test

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