Famous Proverbs

1] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

2] Too much curiosity lost paradise

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

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

5] The devil looks after his own

6] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

7] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

8] Marriages are made in heaven

9] Men are not angles

10] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

11] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

12] Out of debt, out of danger

13] Goodness is better than beauty

14] Like breeds like

15] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

16] It is good fishing in troubled waters

17] The world is full of fools

18] One today is worth two tomorrows

19] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

20] Nothing is so certain as death

21] Harp not for ever on the same string

22] Crowns have cares

23] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

24] When meat is in anger is out

25] Time and tide wait for no man

26] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

27] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

28] Beauty is only skin deep

29] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

30] A strong town is not won in an hour

31] That which proves too much proves nothing

32] A jack of all traders is master of none

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

34] All are not saints that go to church

35] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

36] The greatest step is that out of doors

37] As long lives a merry man as a sad

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

39] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

40] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

41] Plain dealing is best

42] The best things are hard to come by.

43] The biter is sometimes bit

44] All’s well that ends well

45] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

46] Great actions speak minds

47] One thief will not rob another

48] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

49] First impressions are most lasting

50] A house divided against itself cannot stand

51] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

52] He knows which side his bread is buttered

53] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

54] Manners and money make a gentleman

55] The race is got by running

56] Choose thy company before thy drink

57] A hungry man is angry man

58] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

59] Never judge from appearances

60] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

61] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

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

63] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

64] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

65] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

66] Second thoughts are best

67] Forgive and forget

68] Each day brings its own bread

69] Kingdoms divided soon fall

70] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

71] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

72] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

73] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

74] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

75] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

76] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

77] You cannot have it both ways

78] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

79] He stands not surely that never slips

80] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

81] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

82] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

83] Example, is better than precept

84] Everything comes to him who waits

85] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

86] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

87] Hasty work, double work,

88] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

89] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

90] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

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

92] Saying is one thing, and doing another

93] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

94] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

95] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

96] Gluttony kills more than the sword

97] God makes the back for the burden

98] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

99] Where there is no trust there is no love

100] He would command must serve