Famous Proverbs

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

2] We don’t get something for nothing

3] Even a worm will turn

4] When bees area old, they yield n honey

5] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

6] No garden without its weeds.

7] Little things are great to little men

8] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

9] You never know your luck

10] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

11] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

12] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

13] Needs must when the evil drives

14] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

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

16] One cannot love and be wise

17] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

18] A beggar can never be bankrupt

19] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

20] Haste is of (or from) the devil

21] Soon hot, soon cold

22] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

23] All doors open to courtesy

24] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

25] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

26] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

27] A good conscience is a soft pillow

28] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

29] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

30] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

31] Death is the grand leveler

32] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

33] He that cannot ask, cannot live

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

35] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

36] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

37] There is none misfortune cannot reach

38] The money you refuse will never do you good

39] Time flees without a delay

40] Health and money go far

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

42] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

43] A good servant must have good wages

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

45] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

46] There is nothing that costs less than civility

47] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

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

49] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

50] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

51] Marriage is a lottery

52] What is new cannot be true

53] Children and chickens must be always picking

54] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

55] Liars should have good memories

56] He would command must serve

57] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

58] Self-praise is no recommendation

59] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

60] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

61] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

62] Grief pent up will break the heart

63] Put out your tubs when it is raining

64] Don’t ride the high horse

65] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

66] Heaven helps those who help themselves

67] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

68] Money is the sinew of affairs

69] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

70] Master easy, servant slack

71] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

72] Truth is god’s daughter

73] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

74] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

75] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

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

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

78] Between two stools you fall to the ground

79] You may know by a handful the whole sack

80] Money isn’t everything

81] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

82] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

83] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

84] When the cat is away, the mice will play

85] Out of sight, out of mind

86] The tongue stings

87] Grasp all, lose all

88] United we stand, divided we fall

89] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

90] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

91] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

92] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

93] Too much cunning undoes

94] His own ingenuity pricks him.

95] Saying is one thing, and doing another

96] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

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

98] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

99] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

100] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop