Famous Proverbs

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

2] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

3] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

4] Let us do evil that good may come

5] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

6] A hungry man is angry man

7] One may change the place but not the mind.

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

9] It is all in the day’s work

10] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

11] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

12] Take the tone of the company you are in

13] Money refused loses its brightness

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

15] Silence is also speech

16] Wake not a sleeping lion

17] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

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

19] Far fowls have fair feather

20] First impressions are half the battle

21] A cat has nine lives

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

23] Four eyes see more than two

24] You may have too much of a good thing

25] Few words are best

26] He knows most who speaks least

27] Prospect is often better than possession

28] Life is short and time is swift

29] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

30] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

31] The mob has many heads but no brains

32] There is nothing lost by civility

33] Put out your tubs when it is raining

34] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

35] Busiest men find the most time

36] Ill news comes unsent for.

37] Failure teaches success

38] There’s no place like home

39] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

40] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

41] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

42] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

43] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

44] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

45] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

46] He that speaks not, God hears not

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

48] A good conscience is a soft pillow

49] Be still and have thy will

50] Make haste slowly

51] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

52] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

53] Ill luck is good for something

54] The bait hides the hook

55] Nature hates all sudden changes

56] Take things as they come

57] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

58] Good counsel never comes amiss

59] Dirty water does not wash clean.

60] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

61] Precept begins, examples accomplish

62] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

63] Love conquers all

64] A wise man hears one word and understands two

65] Every groom is a king at home

66] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

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

68] Do right and fear no man

69] Needs must when the devil drives

70] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

71] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

72] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

73] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

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

75] Too many cooks spoil the broth

76] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

77] Friends agree best at a distance

78] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

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

80] The course of true love never did run smooth

81] Don’t kick against the pricks

82] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

83] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

84] A watched pot never boils

85] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

86] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

87] All our pomp the earth covers

88] The more you have the more you want

89] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

90] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

91] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

92] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

93] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

94] Do not limp before the lame

95] Honour is the reward of virtue

96] The first blow is half the battle

97] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

98] Man punishes the action but God the intention

99] Soft fire makes sweet malt

100] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience