Famous Proverbs

1] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

2] Much learning makes men mad

3] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

4] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

5] There is many a fair thing full false

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

7] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

8] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

9] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

10] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

11] Wine is the best broom for trouble

12] The devil looks after his own

13] He that sows virtue reaps fame

14] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

15] Nothing is so certain as death

16] They brag most who can do least

17] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

18] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

19] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

20] A hedge between keeps friendship green

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

22] The faulty stands on his guard

23] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

24] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

25] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

26] Forecast is better than work-hard

27] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

28] Little things please little minds

29] As soon as there is life there is danger

30] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

31] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

32] Delay is the antidote of anger

33] Man proposes, God disposes

34] Never buy a pig in a poke

35] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

36] Ill luck is good for something

37] Blood is thicker than water

38] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

39] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

40] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

41] The belly carries the legs

42] Health is not value till sickness comes

43] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

44] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

45] Nothing succeeds like success

46] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

47] Fools grow without watering.

48] Seeing is believing

49] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

50] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

51] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

52] He travels the fastest who travels alone

53] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

54] Hunger breaks stone walls

55] Love will find a way

56] It is too late to call back yesterday

57] Business is business

58] The mob has many heads but no brains

59] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

60] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

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

62] Creditors have better memories than debtors

63] Never spur a willing horse

64] The greatest talkers are the least doers

65] Better an apple given than eaten

66] Never spur a willing horse

67] Kindness lies in one side of the house

68] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

69] Crime does not pay

70] He that praises himself, spatters himself

71] Do unto others as they should do unto you

72] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

73] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

74] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

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

76] A good name is sooner lost than won

77] Christmas comes but once a year

78] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

79] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

80] Look on the bright side

81] The bait hides the hook

82] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

83] Self do, self have

84] Custom reconciles us to everything

85] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

86] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

87] He that is born a fool is never cured

88] A cat may look at a king

89] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

90] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

91] Parents are patterns

92] A little too late, is much too late

93] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

94] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

95] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

96] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

97] Forecast is better than work-hard

98] The company makes the feast

99] Love is without reason

100] Bad excuses are worse than none.