Famous Proverbs

1] Fool’s haste is no speed

2] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

3] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

4] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

5] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

6] Time flies

7] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

8] Threatened folk live long

9] A light purse makes a heavy heart

10] All’s fair in love and war

11] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

12] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

13] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

14] There is nothing lost by civility

15] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

16] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

17] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

18] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

19] Friendship should not be all on one side

20] Trusting often makes fidelity

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

22] He that blows best, bears away the horn

23] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

24] Waste makes wants

25] God’s lambs will play.

26] Numbers overcome the brave

27] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

28] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

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

30] Do unto others as they should do unto you

31] If you would be well served, serve yourself

32] Good fences make good neighbours

33] He that is born a fool is never cured

34] A true man and a thief think not the same

35] Love delights in praise

36] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

37] The labourer is worthy of his hire

38] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

39] There’s a time and place for everything

40] Brevity is the soul of wit

41] The weeds overgrow the corn.

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

43] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

44] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

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

46] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

47] Little pitchers have big ears.

48] An angry man is not fit to pray

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

50] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

51] The good die young.

52] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

53] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

54] Birds once snared fear all bushes

55] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

56] Idle folks lack no excuses

57] Don’t meet trouble half-way

58] Dreams are lies

59] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

60] You cannot have your cake and eat it

61] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

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

63] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

64] Come with the wind, got with the water

65] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

66] All must be as God will

67] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

68] An army marches on its stomach

69] No honest man ever repented his honesty

70] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

71] Without luck, it is better not to be born

72] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

73] Lend never that thing you needed most

74] Appearances are deceptive

75] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

76] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

77] Health is not value till sickness comes

78] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

79] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

80] Men make houses, women make homes

81] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

82] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

83] He that pities another remembers himself

84] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

85] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

86] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

87] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

88] That which Nature paints never fades

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

90] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

91] Corn him well and he will work better

92] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

93] He who begins many things, finishes but few

94] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

95] They that dance must pay the fiddler

96] Don’t tell tales out of school

97] The absent saint gets no candle

98] Despair gives courage to a coward

99] What has been, may be

100] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell