Famous Proverbs

1] He that is absent is soon forgotten

2] The greatest step is that out of doors

3] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

4] When wine sinks, words swim

5] Learn to walk before you run

6] He who envies admits his inferiority

7] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

8] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

9] Honesty is the best policy

10] Even Homer sometimes nods

11] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

12] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

13] He who has seen little marvels much

14] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

15] It is more pain to do nothing than something

16] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

17] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

18] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

19] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

20] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

21] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

22] The first step is the hardest

23] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

24] Confess and be hanged

25] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

26] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

27] Love me, love the crows on my roof

28] God arms the harmless

29] Where god will help, nothing does harm

30] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

31] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

32] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

33] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

34] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

35] We are all Adam’s children

36] First impressions are the most lasting

37] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

38] Repentance comes too late

39] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

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

41] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

42] It’s dogged that does it

43] If today will not, tomorrow may

44] God makes the back for the burden

45] Through obedience learn to command.

46] Mere wishes are silly fishes

47] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

48] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

49] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

50] Fine words dress ill deeds

51] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

52] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

53] Wrong has no warrant

54] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

55] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

56] A bully never grows up.

57] Woes unite foes

58] Never buy a pig in a poke

59] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

60] Good wine needs no bush

61] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

62] The age of miracles is past

63] Nearest the heart comes out first

64] One father is more than a hundred school masters

65] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

66] Old cattle breed not

67] Never do things by halves

68] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

69] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

70] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

71] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

72] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

73] Soon gotten, soon spent

74] A wise man hears one word and understands two

75] Big fish eat little fish

76] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

77] He is rich that has few wants

78] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

79] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

80] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

81] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

82] What may be done at any time is done at no time

83] It is useless to flog a dead horse

84] Nothing seek, nothing find

85] He that promises too much means nothing

86] A parrot will only say what it is taught

87] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

88] Take away fuel, take away flame

89] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

90] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

91] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

92] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

93] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

94] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

95] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

96] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

97] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

98] Misfortune makes foes of friends

99] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

100] A man turned pig no longer fears filth