Famous Proverbs

1] Charity begins at home.

2] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

3] He who wills the end, Wills the means

4] It is too late to husband when all is spent

5] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

6] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

7] What is money to a cat?

8] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

9] Don’t put the cart before the horse

10] There is no fool like an old fool

11] Weak things united become strong

12] There is nothing lost by civility

13] The highest tree has the greatest fall

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

15] Opportunity makes the thief

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

17] History repeats itself

18] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

19] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

20] If you play with fire you get burnt

21] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

22] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

23] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

24] An angry man is not fit to pray

25] Care killed the cat

26] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

27] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

28] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

29] Advise none to marry or to go to war

30] If you have known one, you have known them all

31] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

32] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

33] Wiles help weak folk

34] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

35] Never buy a pig in a poke

36] Variety is the spice of life

37] Money is the root of all evil

38] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

39] He may find fault that cannot mend

40] No man is wise at all times

41] Good hand, good hire

42] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

43] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

44] Wine unveils the words of the heart

45] The devil dances in an empty pocket

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

47] The receiver is as bad as the thief

48] We live laws, not by examples

49] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

50] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

51] Better eye sore than al blind

52] Fair play’s a jewel

53] A crowd is not company

54] Crowns have cares

55] None so deaf as those that will not hear

56] A wise man hears one word and understands two

57] Give and take is fair play

58] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

59] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

60] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

61] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

62] Time has wings

63] The labour we delight in physics pain

64] What’s done cannot be undone

65] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

66] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

67] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

68] He knows most who speaks least

69] He that has an ill name is half hanged

70] There are more ways to the wood than one.

71] If today will not, tomorrow may

72] The more you get, the more you want

73] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

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

75] Pardon makes offenders

76] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

77] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

78] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

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

80] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

81] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

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

83] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

84] A good name is sooner lost than won

85] The end crowns the work.

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

87] Idle folks lack no excuses

88] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

89] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

90] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

91] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

92] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

93] Evil to him who evil thinks.

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

95] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

96] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

97] Open a book and you profit by what you read

98] A good Conscience is the best divinity

99] What the king wills, that the law wills

100] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king