Famous Proverbs

1] He is lifeless that is faultless

2] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

3] In wine there is truth

4] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

5] You cannot serve God and Mammon

6] A man’s studies pass in to his character

7] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

8] Discontent is the first step in progress

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

10] No man is wise at all times

11] Be still and have thy will

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

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

14] More than enough is too much

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

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

17] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

18] A good marksman may miss

19] Far fowls have fair feather

20] He who does no good, does evil enough

21] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

22] The devil lurks behind the cross

23] There is nothing like being on the safe side

24] All griefs with bread are less

25] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

26] Things are only worth one makes them worth

27] The grace of God enough

28] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

29] We don’t get something for nothing

30] Pardon makes offenders

31] The first step is the hardest

32] Best is cheapest

33] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

34] He who wills the end, Wills the means

35] Opportunity makes the thief

36] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

37] Men are known by the company they keep.

38] Tomorrow is another day

39] Wine unveils the words of the heart

40] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

41] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

42] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

43] Forecast is better than work-hard

44] Long life has long misery

45] Those near the temple deride the gods

46] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

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

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

49] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

50] Boys will be boys

51] Almost’ never killed a fly.

52] Expectation is better than realisation

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

54] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

55] No land without stones, or meat without bones

56] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

57] He that knows little often repeats it

58] Fish begins to stink at the head

59] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

60] Friends are thieves of time

61] He gives twice who gives quickly

62] No one betrays himself by silence

63] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

64] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

65] Death keeps no calendar

66] Love knows no limit

67] First thrive then wive

68] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

69] Once a use and ever a custom

70] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

71] Eat to live and not live to eat.

72] The wisest of the wise may err.

73] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

74] Fair play’s a jewel

75] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

76] Old cattle breed not

77] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

78] Of evil manners, spring good laws

79] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

80] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

81] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

82] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

83] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

84] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

85] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

86] Take the tone of the company you are in

87] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

88] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

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

90] So many countries, so many customs

91] Even Homer sometimes nods

92] God provides for him that trusts

93] There is no accounting for tastes

94] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

95] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

96] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

97] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

98] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

99] There is no time like the present

100] Virtue has all things in itself