Famous Proverbs

1] Do not triumph before the victory

2] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

3] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

4] Who suffers much is silent

5] Have two strings to your bow

6] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

7] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

8] Fools live poor to die rich

9] Facts are stubborn things

10] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

11] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

12] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

13] He is an ill husband who is not missed

14] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

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

16] Fire is a good servant a bad master

17] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

18] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

19] A friend is easier lost than found

20] Too far east is west

21] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

22] Nature will have her course

23] He that has good money, gives few alms

24] God made the country ,and man made the town

25] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

26] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

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

28] A good drink makes the old young

29] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

30] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

31] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

32] In indecision itself, grief is present.

33] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

34] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

35] Master easy, servant slack

36] Custom reconciles us to everything

37] Never spur a willing horse

38] The young will sow their wild oats

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

40] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

41] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

42] A good marksman may miss

43] A penny saved is a penny gained

44] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

45] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

46] Example, is better than precept

47] A loveless life is a living death

48] If one will not, another will

49] Where there is whispering there is lying

50] Penny wise, pound foolish

51] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

52] Better sit still than rise and fall

53] The sign brings customers

54] Pleasant hours fly past

55] Prevention is better than cure

56] He who hesitates is lost

57] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

58] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

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

60] Dumb dogs are dangerous

61] There is many a true word spoken in jest

62] Dirty water does not wash clean.

63] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

64] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

65] Truth has no need of rhetoric

66] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

67] The labourer is worthy of his hire

68] Second thoughts are best

69] Let not your tongue run at rover

70] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

71] It is ill jesting with edged tools

72] Nature surpasses art

73] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

74] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

75] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

76] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

77] When angry, count a hundred

78] Every Jack must have his Jill

79] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

80] They say so’ is half a lie

81] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

82] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

83] Like breeds like

84] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

85] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

86] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

87] Common fame is seldom to blame

88] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

89] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

90] Truth is god’s daughter

91] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

92] It is never too late to mend

93] Every man must carry his own cross

94] He that cannot ask, cannot live

95] A beggar can never be bankrupt

96] Fair without, false within

97] Fool’s haste is no speed

98] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

99] The devil knows many things because he is old

100] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar