Famous Proverbs

1] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

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

3] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

4] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

5] Better ask the way than go astray

6] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

7] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

8] Forecast is better than work-hard

9] Look on the bright side

10] Bare walls make giddy housewives

11] Where there is no might, right loses itself

12] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

13] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

14] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

15] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

16] Six feet of earth make all men equal

17] Men are not angles

18] Wise men do not argue with idiots

19] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

20] Light burden I heavy if far borne

21] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

22] Better an apple given than eaten

23] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

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

25] Better eye sore than al blind

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

27] It is no use crying over spilt milk

28] Expectation is better than realisation

29] None so deaf as those that will not hear

30] Good broth may be made in an old pot

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

32] Handsome is as handsome does

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

34] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

35] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

36] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

37] A mouse may help a lion

38] Accidents will happen

39] Jesters do oft prove prophets

40] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

41] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

42] All’s well that ends well

43] Waste not, want not

44] He who begins many things, finishes but few

45] Let us do evil that good may come

46] Good ware makes quick market

47] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

48] Respect is greater from a distance

49] Blood will have blood

50] Wrong never comes right

51] Dead dogs bark not

52] There is truth in wine

53] Paddle your own canoe

54] Two heads are better than one

55] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

56] The bait hides the hook

57] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

58] Dead men tell no tales

59] Borrowed garments never fit well

60] Haste is of (or from) the devil

61] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

62] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

63] Coming events cast their shadows before

64] So many countries, so many customs

65] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

66] Too much cunning undoes

67] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

68] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

69] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

70] Nearest the heart comes out first

71] He that travels far knows much

72] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

73] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

74] Health is better than wealth

75] Evil to him who evil thinks.

76] The hole calls the thief

77] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

78] The exception proves the rule

79] He that praises himself, spatters himself

80] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

81] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

82] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

83] They brag most who can do least

84] Once a knave, always a knave

85] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

86] Good wine needs no bush

87] Needs must when the devil drives

88] Intimacy lessens fame

89] There is no time like the present

90] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

91] Poor folk fare the best

92] A man’s mother is his other God

93] There is no royal road to learning

94] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

95] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

96] All men are mortal

97] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

98] Love is sweet torment

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

100] He that has plenty of goods will have more