Famous Proverbs

1] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

2] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

3] Misfortunes never come singly

4] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

5] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

6] Manners and money make a gentleman

7] Crows are all completely black

8] Ill gotten, ill spent

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

10] By his deeds we know a man

11] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

12] The good intention excuses the bad action

13] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

14] Muck and money go together

15] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

16] A good payer is master of another’s purse

17] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

18] Human blood is all of a colour

19] The best of men are but men at best.

20] Crows are all completely black

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

22] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

23] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

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

25] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

26] Experience is good if not bought too dear

27] As soon as there is life there is danger

28] Children and fools cannot lie.

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

30] Plain dealing is best

31] Innocence is no protection

32] A good face is a letter of recommendation

33] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

34] Bad news travels fast

35] A learned man has always riches in himself

36] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

37] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

38] Love will go through stone walls

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

40] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

41] A man may bear till his back breaks

42] Double charge will rive a cannon

43] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

44] Pleasant hours fly past

45] Better say noting than no to the purpose

46] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

47] Heaven helps those who help themselves

48] There is no tree but bears some fruit

49] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

50] The best things carried to excess are wrong

51] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

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

53] Kind hearts are more than coronets

54] Eat to live and not live to eat.

55] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

56] His bark is worse than his bite

57] Wishes can never fill a sack

58] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

59] Who greases his way travels easily

60] A monk can’t shave his own head

61] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

62] Coming events cast their shadows before

63] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

64] Home is home though it be never so homely

65] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

66] Jesters do oft prove prophets

67] The absent party is always to blame.

68] Manners make the man

69] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

70] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

71] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

72] Covetousness brings nothing home

73] One cannot love and be wise

74] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

75] It is not work that kills but worry

76] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

77] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

78] Custom reconciles us to everything

79] Everyone to his taste

80] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

81] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

82] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

83] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

84] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

85] Never too late to late to repent

86] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

87] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

88] After a storm comes a calm

89] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

90] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

91] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

92] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

93] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

94] Corn him well and he will work better

95] He freezes who does not burn

96] The road to hell is paved with good action

97] Life is not all beer and skittles

98] Intimacy lessens fame

99] One cannot put back the clock

100] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands