Famous Proverbs

1] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

2] A fool may give a wise man counsel

3] Pride goes before a fall

4] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

5] Go while the going is good

6] Despair gives courage to a coward

7] Every man has his faults

8] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

9] Needs must when the evil drives

10] Little things are pretty

11] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

12] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

13] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

14] Blood will have blood

15] Do not triumph before the victory

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

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

18] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

19] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

20] III luck is good for something

21] One man’s means another man’s poison

22] Better be a fool than a knave

23] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

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

25] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

26] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

27] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

28] As you bake, so shall you eat.

29] Big words seldom go with good deeds

30] Threatened folk live long

31] Give credit where credit is due

32] A little impatience will spoil great plans

33] Wisdom is better than strength

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

35] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

36] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

37] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

38] The biter is sometimes bit

39] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

40] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

41] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

42] The axe falls on a straight tree first

43] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

44] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

45] A good drink makes the old young

46] Bread is the staff of life.

47] It costs more to do ill than to do well

48] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

49] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

50] Pardon makes offenders

51] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

52] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

53] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

54] No cross, no crown

55] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

56] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

57] In my own house, I am king

58] Money makes the man

59] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

60] Beauty draws more than oxen

61] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

62] Children speak only words they have heard.

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

64] Desire beautifies what is ugly

65] The absent saint gets no candle

66] Soon gotten, soon spent

67] Be careful to whom you give

68] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

69] There is truth in wine

70] Every cloud has a silver lining

71] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

72] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

73] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

74] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

75] Beauty is but skin-deep

76] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

77] Light grows the burden which is well borne

78] First try and then trust

79] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

80] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

81] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

82] It is not work that kills but worry

83] Help a lame dog over a stile

84] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

85] A bad excuse is better than none at all

86] Good to begin well, better to end well.

87] The race is got by running

88] Work expands so as to fill the time available

89] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

90] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

91] It is the first step that is troublesome

92] We have all been once in our life

93] Where there is no might, right loses itself

94] God makes the back for the burden

95] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

96] There is death in the pot.

97] Good is good but better carries it

98] He who comes late must eat what is left

99] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

100] Take things as they come