Famous Proverbs

1] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

2] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

3] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

4] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

5] Lavishness is not generosity

6] Sickness shows us what we are

7] Water is the king of food

8] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

9] Every advantage has its disadvantage

10] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

11] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

12] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

13] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

14] He has not lost all who has one cast left

15] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

16] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

17] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

18] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

19] Beauty is only skin deep

20] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

21] First catch your hare

22] Never spend your money before you have it

23] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

24] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

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

26] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

27] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

28] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

29] One father is more than a hundred school masters

30] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

31] Better an open enemy than a false friend

32] None can guess the jewel by the casket

33] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

34] What is worth doing is worth doing well

35] Friends are thieves of time

36] Wife and Children are bills of charges

37] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

38] The dog that fetches, will carry.

39] Come with the wind, got with the water

40] One swallow does not make a summer

41] Who greases his way travels easily

42] All things that great men do are well done

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

44] All heiresses are beautiful.

45] One kindness is the price of another

46] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

47] Content is more than a kingdom

48] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

49] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

50] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

51] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

52] Too much hope deceives

53] He that blows best, bears away the horn

54] Needs must when the evil drives

55] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

56] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

57] Vice makes virtue shine

58] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

59] Every oak has been an acorn

60] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

61] Big words seldom go with good deeds

62] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

63] In the land of hope there is never any winter

64] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

65] A jest breaks no bones

66] Haste makes waste

67] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

68] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

69] It is good to follow the old fox

70] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

71] Love knows hidden paths

72] Thrift is a great revenue

73] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

74] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

75] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

76] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

77] Fish begins to stink at the head

78] No one ought to judge in his own cause

79] Evil to him who evil thinks.

80] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

81] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

82] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

83] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

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

85] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

86] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

87] Birds once snared fear all bushes

88] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

89] Men are not to be measured in inches

90] He who comes first, grinds first.

91] Dreams go by contraries

92] If you would be well served, serve yourself

93] Every groom is a king at home

94] Too much curiosity lost paradise

95] Acorns were good till bread was found

96] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

97] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

98] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

99] Tomorrow is another day

100] There is no place like home