Famous Proverbs

1] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

2] Good words are worth much and cost little

3] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

4] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

5] The mob tramples on the coward

6] Great actions speak minds

7] Familiarity breeds contempt

8] Beauty opens locked doors

9] God’s lambs will play.

10] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

11] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

12] Better be born lucky than wise.

13] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

14] A penny saved is a penny gained

15] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

16] Eat to live and not live to eat.

17] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

18] He that desires but little has no deed of much

19] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

20] Success has many friends

21] Grin and bear it

22] Money is power

23] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

24] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

25] There is no tree but bears some fruit

26] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

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

28] A man of courage never wants weapons

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

30] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

31] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

32] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

33] A good friend is my nearest relation

34] Honesty is ill to thrive by

35] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

36] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

37] Bind the sack before it be full

38] Hard words break no bones

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

40] Truth is god’s daughter

41] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

42] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

43] Hasty work, double work,

44] Acorns were good till bread was found

45] Work won’t kill but worry will.

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

47] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

48] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

49] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

50] A good wife makes a good husband

51] His bark is worse than his bite

52] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

53] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

54] A useful trade is a mine of gold

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

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

57] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

58] Tomorrow is another day

59] The biter is sometimes bit

60] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

61] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

62] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

63] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

64] When you do not know what to do – wait.

65] Trust is the mother of deceit

66] He who comes first, grinds first.

67] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

68] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

69] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

70] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

71] He may find fault that cannot mend

72] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

73] The cowl does not make the monk.

74] Nature is the true law

75] No man is born wise or learned

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

77] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

78] A good heart conquers ill fortune

79] None so busy as those who do nothing.

80] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

81] Union is strength.

82] At open doors, dogs come in

83] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

84] No convenience without its inconvenience

85] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

86] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

87] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

88] The hand that gives, gathers

89] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

90] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

91] Every man to his trade.

92] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

93] It is more pain to do nothing than something

94] Half a word is enough for a wise man

95] Every shoe fits not every foot

96] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

97] From word to deed is a great space

98] Words and feathers the wind carries away

99] Better an apple given than eaten

100] No playing with a straw before an old cat.