Famous Proverbs

1] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

2] No convenience without its inconvenience

3] All cats are grey in the dark

4] One reason is as good as fifty

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

6] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

7] There is none misfortune cannot reach

8] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

9] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

10] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

11] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

12] No man is born wise or learned

13] Open confession is good for the soul

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

15] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

16] Blue are the far away hills

17] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

18] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

19] Everything must have a beginning

20] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

21] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

22] He freezes who does not burn

23] Divide and rule

24] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

25] Don’t cry before you are hurt

26] Gold is tried in the fire

27] Extremity of right is wrong

28] Variety takes away satiety

29] Money isn’t everything

30] He who comes first, grinds first.

31] He knows which side his bread is buttered

32] Soon gotten, soon spent

33] He that praises himself, spatters himself

34] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

35] Bread is the staff of life.

36] There is no place like home

37] A man may learn wit every day.

38] A good face is a letter of recommendation

39] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

40] The weeds overgrow the corn.

41] The ant had wings to her hurt

42] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

43] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

44] That which proves too much proves nothing

45] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

46] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

47] Muck and money go together

48] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

49] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

50] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

51] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

52] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

53] Petty laws breed great crimes

54] Friendship should not be all on one

55] A door must be either shut or open

56] The falling drops hollow the stone

57] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

58] A loveless life is a living death

59] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

60] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

61] More haste, less speed

62] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

63] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

64] Good broth may be made in an old pot

65] His bark is worse than his bite

66] All things for not all persons

67] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

68] Spare the rod and spoil the child

69] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

70] Truth is mighty and will prevail

71] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

72] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

73] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

74] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

75] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

76] Hard words break no bones

77] Time and tide wait for no man

78] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

79] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

80] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

81] Too many cooks spoil the broth

82] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

83] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

84] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

85] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

86] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

87] Wishes can never fill a sack

88] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

89] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

90] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

91] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

92] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

93] Poverty is not a crime

94] What can’t be cured must be endured

95] Despair gives courage to a coward

96] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

97] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

98] A little too late, is much too late

99] He that ventures not fails not.

100] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas