Famous Proverbs

1] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

2] He who does no good, does evil enough

3] One man sows and another reaps

4] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

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

6] New things are fair

7] Care brings grey hair.

8] Too much hope deceives

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

10] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

11] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

12] A house divided against itself cannot stand

13] You may know by a handful the whole sack

14] God is a sure paymaster

15] Borrowed garments never fit well

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

17] There is no royal road to learning

18] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

19] A good word stills great anger

20] No man so good but another may be as good as he

21] Ambition makes people diligent

22] He travels the fastest who travels alone

23] Death alone can kill hope

24] A willful man will have his way

25] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

26] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

27] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

28] Prospect is often better than possession

29] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

30] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

31] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

32] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

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

34] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

35] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

36] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

37] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

38] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

39] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

40] Where there’s a will there’s a way

41] Time flees without a delay

42] An old horse knows the route

43] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

44] A healthy man is a successful man

45] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

46] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

47] Truth is mighty and will prevail

48] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

49] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

50] Two wrongs do not make a right

51] All things are possible with god

52] Affection blinds reason

53] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

54] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

55] We don’t get something for nothing

56] Rats know the ways of rats

57] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

58] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

59] Debt is an evil conscience

60] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

61] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

62] Fire is a good servant a bad master

63] Fortune is blind

64] Many words, many buffets

65] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

66] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

67] A wise man hears one word and understands two

68] He that is born a fool is never cured

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

70] Repentance comes too late

71] Dirty linen should be washed at home

72] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

73] What may be done at any time is done at no time

74] Easy come, easy go

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

76] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

77] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

78] Make hay while the sun shines

79] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

80] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

81] A cat has nine lives

82] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

83] Man punishes the action but God the intention

84] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

85] No wrong without a remedy

86] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

87] There are more men threatened than stricken

88] He that seeks trouble never misses

89] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

90] Every man has his price

91] Never say die

92] Every commodity has its discommodity

93] Things are seldom what they seem.

94] Hunger is the best sauce

95] An old fox is not easily snared

96] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

97] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

98] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

99] Hasty work, double work,

100] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure