Famous Proverbs

1] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

2] Pursuits become habits

3] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

4] Coming events cast their shadows before

5] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

6] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

7] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

8] Pleasant hours fly past

9] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

10] If one will not, another will

11] Six feet of earth make all men equal

12] Marriage is a lottery

13] It takes a wise man to be a fool

14] Little wealth, little care

15] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

16] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

17] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

18] Wake not a sleeping lion

19] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

20] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

21] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

22] One must howl with the wolves

23] A man’s studies pass in to his character

24] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

25] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

26] Too many cooks spoil the broth

27] They are rich who have true friends

28] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

29] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

30] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

31] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

32] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

33] Idle folks have the least leisure

34] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

35] The young will sow their wild oats

36] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

37] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

38] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

39] He who touches pitch will be defiled

40] Ambition loses many a man

41] If you play with fire you get burnt

42] The greatest talkers are the least doers

43] Money talks

44] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

45] Practice is the science that gives confidence

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

47] Appetite comes with eating

48] Tempt not a desperate man

49] Better unborn than untaught

50] Better be safe than sorry

51] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

52] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

53] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

54] He who comes late must eat what is left

55] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

56] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

57] Many a true word is spoken in jest

58] The early bird catches the worm

59] We shall lie all alike in our graves

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

61] Never too late to late to repent

62] They can do least two boast loudest

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

64] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

65] The longest journey starts with a single step

66] Of a new prince, new bondage

67] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

68] He who touches pitch will be defiled

69] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

70] The cowl does not make the monk.

71] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

72] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

73] Everything must have a beginning

74] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

75] Don’t cry before you are hurt

76] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

77] You cannot unscramble eggs

78] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

79] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

80] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

81] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

82] Gold will not buy everything

83] First try and then trust

84] Honest is the best policy

85] Love sees no fault

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

87] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

88] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

89] Little things are great to little men

90] The highest tree has the greatest fall

91] All truths are not to be told

92] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

93] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

94] Patience is the remedy of the world

95] A man with no hands is given a ring.

96] A little impatience will spoil great plans

97] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

98] The first step is the hardest

99] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

100] A little body often harbours a great soul