Famous Proverbs

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

2] You cannot make bricks without straw

3] Truth is god’s daughter

4] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

5] Money isn’t everything

6] Children should be seen and not heard

7] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

8] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

9] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

10] A change is as good as rest

11] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

12] You never know what you can do till you try

13] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

14] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

15] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

16] Bad luck often brings good luck

17] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

18] Adam’s ale is the best brew

19] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

20] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

21] What has been, may be

22] Share and share alike

23] Like will to like

24] Slow and steady wins the race

25] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

26] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

27] Praises fill not the belly

28] Give and take is fair play

29] Rip not up old sores

30] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

31] He who teaches learns

32] A jack of all traders is master of none

33] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

34] There are two sides to every question

35] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

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

37] Youth will have its course.

38] The best wine comes from an old vessel

39] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

40] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

41] New lords, new laws

42] Hard cases make bad law

43] Don’t meet trouble half-way

44] Never hit a man when he’s down

45] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

46] A good husband makes a good wife

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

48] Respect is greater from a distance

49] Appearances are deceptive

50] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

51] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

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

53] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

54] Beggars must not be choosers

55] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

56] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

57] There is nothing like being on the safe side

58] No wrong without a remedy

59] No day so clear but has dark clouds

60] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

61] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

62] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

63] It is too late to look up after you have collided

64] The lion had need of the mouse

65] No good building without a good foundation.

66] Dreams are lies

67] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

68] Needs must when the evil drives

69] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

70] Too much hope deceives

71] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

72] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

73] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

74] All things that great men do are well done

75] Go while the going is good

76] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

77] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

78] As you bake, so shall you eat.

79] What will not money do?

80] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

81] The belly carries the legs

82] Ready money is ready medicine

83] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

84] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

85] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

86] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

87] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

88] Discretion is the better part of valour

89] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

90] He that praises himself, spatters himself

91] The poor suffer all the wrong

92] All roads lead to Rome

93] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

94] Every medal has two sides

95] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

96] Set a thief to catch a thief

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

98] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

99] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

100] Gluttony kills more than the sword