Famous Proverbs

1] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

2] Words bind men

3] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

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

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

6] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

7] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

8] Birds once snared fear all bushes

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

10] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

11] A little help is worth a deal of pity

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

13] There is no royal road to learning

14] Manners and money make a gentleman

15] Charity excuseth not cheating.

16] Slow help is no help

17] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

18] He that promises too much means nothing

19] You cannot have your cake and eat it

20] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

21] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

22] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

23] Judge not of men and things at first sight

24] Let not your tongue run at rover

25] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

26] Ready money is a ready remedy

27] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

28] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

29] Too far east is west

30] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

31] One fool praises another

32] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

33] Riches along make no men happy

34] Needs must when the devil drives

35] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

36] Love is without reason

37] Haste makes waste

38] A bad padlock invites a picklock

39] Despair gives courage to a coward

40] The thing which is rare is dear

41] He that burns most, shines most

42] First think, and then speak

43] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

44] Second thoughts are best

45] Hope is grief’s best music

46] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

47] A living dog is better than a dead lion

48] It is useless to flog a dead horse

49] A good husband makes a good wife

50] The owl thinks her own young fairest

51] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

52] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

53] Tomorrow is another day

54] Experience is the mother of wisdom

55] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

56] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

57] The darkest place is under the candlestick

58] All things are possible with god

59] All’s fish that comes to the net

60] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

61] When wine sinks, words swim

62] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

63] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

64] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

65] Everything must have a beginning

66] Forgive and forget

67] Health is great riches

68] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

69] Enough is as good as a feast

70] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

71] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

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

73] Things are only worth one makes them worth

74] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

75] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

76] Man does what he can, and God what he will

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

78] An old fox is not easily snared

79] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

80] Forewarned is forearmed

81] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

82] A rich man’s joke is always funny

83] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

84] Water is the king of food

85] Marriage makes or mars a man

86] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

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

88] Let the buyer beware

89] Blue are the far away hills

90] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

91] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

92] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

93] Love turns pimples

94] Words fly, writings remain

95] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

96] The devil looks after his own

97] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

98] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

99] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

100] The longest way round is the shortest way home