Famous Proverbs

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

2] The absent saint gets no candle

3] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

4] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

5] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

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

7] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

8] A bribe will enter without knocking

9] What will not money do?

10] Business is business

11] A good marksman may miss

12] Love is never without jealousy

13] Better say noting than no to the purpose

14] There is no rose without a thorn

15] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

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

17] Too much hope deceives

18] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

19] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

20] Ready money is ready medicine

21] Every commodity has its discommodity

22] No man is wise at all times

23] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

24] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

25] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

26] A woman’s work is never done

27] No sweet without sweat

28] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

29] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

30] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

31] Full of courtesy, full of craft

32] He who envies admits his inferiority

33] Adventures are to be adventurous

34] Dead men don’t bite

35] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

36] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

37] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

38] Friends are thieves of time

39] There’s a black sheep in every flock

40] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

41] Christmas comes but once a year

42] Dogs bark as they are bred.

43] Nothing is so certain as death

44] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

45] Do it now

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

47] Honesty is ill to thrive by

48] So many men, so many opinions

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

50] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

51] Nature is content with little.

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

53] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

54] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

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

56] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

57] Money can influence even the spirits

58] Findings are keepings

59] The hole calls the thief

60] Bad luck often brings good luck

61] What is worth doing is worth doing well

62] Better never begin than never make an end

63] The best fish swim near the bottom

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

65] Fair play’s a jewel

66] One thief will not rob another

67] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

68] In everything consider the end

69] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

70] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

71] Home is home though it be never so homely

72] Learn to walk before you run

73] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

74] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

75] A good heart cannot lie.

76] Children and fools cannot lie.

77] What is money to a cat?

78] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

79] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

80] Beware of no man more than himself

81] A single rose does not mean spring

82] The dog is a lion in his own house

83] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

84] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

85] An army marches on its stomach

86] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

87] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

88] A man of courage never wants weapons

89] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

90] Train the child in the way he should go.

91] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

92] A good lather is half the shave

93] He conquers who endures

94] More haste, less speed

95] Love is lawless.

96] One must be a servant before one can be a master

97] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

98] Spread the table, and contention will cease

99] Slow and steady wins the race

100] Great talkers are never great doers