Famous Proverbs

1] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

2] Nature surpasses art

3] Do not kick against the pricks

4] Parents are patterns

5] There is nothing permanent except change

6] Long life has long misery

7] Nearest the heart comes out first

8] Penny and penny laid up will be many

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

10] Self do, self have

11] Slow but sure wins the race

12] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

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

14] What is a workman without his tools?

15] Great actions speak minds

16] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

17] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

18] Beauty draws more than oxen

19] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

20] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

21] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

22] A rich man can do nothing wrong

23] Men are blind in their own cause

24] There is nothing permanent except change

25] Time flees without a delay

26] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

27] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

28] Good broth may be made in an old pot

29] Health and money go far

30] Money is power

31] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

32] Hasty work, double work,

33] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

34] Leave well alone

35] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

36] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

37] The Pen is mightier than the sword

38] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

39] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

40] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

41] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

42] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

43] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

44] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

45] God made the country ,and man made the town

46] First creep, then walk

47] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

48] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

49] A fool always rushes to the fore.

50] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

51] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

52] Better the last smile than the first laugh

53] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

54] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

55] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

56] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

57] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

58] They brag most who can do least

59] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

60] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

61] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

62] As you bake, so shall you eat.

63] Hunger is the best sauce

64] Beauty is only skin deep

65] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

66] Opportunity makes the thief

67] He that pities another remembers himself

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

69] Bad news travels fast

70] More have repented speech than silence

71] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

72] When angry, count a hundred

73] His bark is worse than his bite

74] Pardon makes offenders

75] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

76] The money you refuse will never do you good

77] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

78] The borrower is servant to the lender

79] He that praises himself, spatters himself

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

81] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

82] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

83] A soft answer turns away wrath

84] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

85] A good example is the best sermon

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

87] There is no redemption from hell

88] III luck is good for something

89] Ill news comes unsent for.

90] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

91] We live laws, not by examples

92] Money is the sinew of affairs

93] One good turn deserves another

94] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

95] It is easy to be wise after the event

96] Lose a leg rather than a life

97] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

98] The end crowns the work.

99] He that has no money needs no purse

100] The mean is the best