Famous Proverbs

1] A good friend is my nearest relation

2] The best wine comes from an old vessel

3] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

4] What’s done cannot be undone

5] We shall lie all alike in our graves

6] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

7] Tell a lie and stick to it.

8] Better bend than break

9] He that blows best, bears away the horn

10] Gossiping and lying go together

11] You can’t take it with you when you die

12] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

13] A rich man can do nothing wrong

14] Do as I say, not as I do

15] No man is a hero to his valet

16] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

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

18] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

19] Nothing is given so freely as advice

20] A gift much expected is paid, not given

21] Manners make the man

22] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

23] Forewarned is forearmed

24] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

25] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

26] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

27] Never too late to repent

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

29] None but the brave deserves the fair

30] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

31] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

32] When in doubt, do nothing

33] Even water has its ebb and flow

34] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

35] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

36] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

37] Let us do evil that good may come

38] Borrowed garments never fit well

39] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

40] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

41] It is the first step that is troublesome

42] As soon as there is life there is danger

43] Evil to him who evil thinks.

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

45] Slow help is no help

46] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

47] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

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

49] Muck and money go together

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

51] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

52] Petty laws breed great crimes

53] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

54] One of these days is none of these days

55] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

56] There is safety in numbers

57] All must be as God will

58] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

59] He that wants health wants all

60] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

61] Two wrongs do not make a right

62] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

63] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

64] Quickly come, quickly go

65] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

66] A good payer is master of another’s purse

67] Youth and age will never agree

68] Paddle your own canoe

69] Where there is no trust there is no love

70] A bad padlock invites a picklock

71] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

72] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

73] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

74] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

75] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

76] Wrong has no warrant

77] After the extreme of cold comes spring

78] Many words, many buffets

79] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

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

81] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

82] Once bitten, twice shy.

83] Crows are all completely black

84] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

85] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

86] Money is the sinews of war

87] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

88] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

89] Go not to hell for company

90] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

91] A good husband makes a good wife

92] First try and then trust

93] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

94] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

95] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

96] Between two stools you fall to the ground

97] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

98] Rip not up old sores

99] Good is good but better carries it

100] You see a man’s face but not his heart.