Famous Proverbs

1] Give and spend, and God will send

2] A joke’s a very serious thing

3] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

4] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

5] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

6] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

7] Many drops make a shower

8] No day so clear but has dark clouds

9] Don’t take your harp to the party

10] Keep some till further more come

11] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

12] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

13] Make haste slowly

14] Master easy, servant slack

15] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

16] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

17] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

18] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

19] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

20] Do not limp before the lame

21] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

22] Better children weep than old men

23] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

24] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

25] Laughter makes good blood

26] A little learning is dangerous thing

27] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

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

29] Remember, you are but a man

30] Don’t tell tales out of school

31] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

32] A rolling stone gathers no moss

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

34] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

35] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

36] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

37] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

38] By falling we learn to go safely

39] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

40] Never do things by halves

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

42] There is honour among thieves

43] A bribe will enter without knocking

44] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

45] Waste makes wants

46] No man is content with his lot

47] Saying is one thing, and doing another

48] Virtue is the only true nobility

49] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

50] Honour is the reward of virtue

51] A closed mouth catches no files

52] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

53] Take things as they come

54] Words bind men

55] They that dance must pay the fiddler

56] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

57] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

58] Quickly come, quickly go

59] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

60] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

61] Fair face, foul heart

62] One swallow does not make a summer

63] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

64] An obedient wife commands her husband

65] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

66] Necessity is a powerful weapon

67] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

68] A constant guest is never welcome

69] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

70] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

71] A bully is always a coward

72] He is rich that has few wants

73] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

74] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

75] The highest branch is not the safest roost

76] Possibilities are infinite

77] Every may be has a may not be

78] Everything in moderation.

79] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

80] Take away fuel, take away flame

81] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

82] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

83] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

84] He that lives ill, fear follows him

85] There is no garden without its weeds

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

87] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

88] Love knows no limit

89] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

90] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

91] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

92] Wise men do not argue with idiots

93] A true friend is forever a friend

94] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

95] Crime does not pay

96] The tide must be taken when it comes

97] Many eyes upon the king

98] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

99] A good garden may have some ill weeds

100] It is good fishing in troubled waters