Famous Proverbs

1] Needs must when the devil drives

2] III luck is good for something

3] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

4] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

5] One thief will not rob another

6] Pursuits become habits

7] Never judge from appearances

8] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

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

10] Poor folk fare the best

11] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

12] He that is down need fear no fall

13] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

14] It takes all sorts to make a world

15] Ready money is ready medicine

16] Words bind men

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

18] Knowledge is power

19] The longest way round is the shortest way home

20] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

21] All is fair in love and war

22] Be careful to whom you give

23] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

24] The mob tramples on the coward

25] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

26] There is many a fair thing full false

27] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

28] Procrastination is the thief of time

29] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

30] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

31] Art improves Nature

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

33] Care killed the cat

34] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

35] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

36] Speech is silver, silence is golden

37] Not even Hercules could contend against two

38] Ill news comes apace.

39] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

40] A little learning is dangerous thing

41] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

42] Handsome is as handsome does

43] Many a little makes a mickle

44] Habit is second nature

45] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

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

47] Laws were made to be broke

48] Nature is the true law

49] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

50] If anything can go wrong, it will

51] The bait hides the hook

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

53] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

54] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

55] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

56] The weeds overgrow the corn.

57] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

58] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

59] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

60] The rich knows not who is his friend

61] Once a use and ever a custom

62] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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

64] All that glitters is not gold

65] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

66] He who has seen little marvels much

67] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

68] The golden age was never the present age

69] Every shoe fits not every foot

70] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

71] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

72] Words cut more than swords

73] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

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

75] None so blind as those who will not see

76] No man can serve two masters

77] Like will to like

78] No man is content with his lot

79] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

80] Nothing crave, nothing have

81] Poverty is not a crime

82] Men make houses, women make homes

83] The cobbler should stick to his last

84] Hard cases make bad law

85] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

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

87] Wise men propose, and fools determine

88] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

89] Advice when most needed is least heeded

90] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

91] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

92] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

93] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

94] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

95] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

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

97] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

98] A wicked man is his own hell

99] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

100] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty