Famous Proverbs

1] Names and natures do often agree

2] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

3] Alms never make poor

4] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

5] Men are not angles

6] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

7] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

8] Choose thy company before thy drink

9] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

10] The thread breaks where it is weakest

11] Example is the greatest of all seducers

12] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

13] A good servant must have good wages

14] You cannot make bricks without straw

15] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

16] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

17] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

18] Praise no man till he is dead.

19] Conscience does make cowards of us all

20] Ale will make a cat speak

21] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

22] He who last, laughs longest.

23] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

24] It is the first step that is troublesome

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

26] The falling drops hollow the stone

27] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

28] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

29] Divine grace was never slow

30] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

31] You can’t win them all

32] They that dance must pay the fiddler

33] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

34] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

35] Covetousness breaks the sack

36] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

37] Bold men have generous hearts

38] Do not wear out your welcome

39] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

40] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

41] God helps those who help themselves

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

43] He that blows best, bears away the horn

44] They are rich who have true friends

45] A man in debt is caught in a net

46] Birds once snared fear all bushes

47] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

48] Two blacks do not make a white

49] Rome was not built in a day

50] You must grin and bear it

51] Circumstances alter cases

52] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

53] The poor suffer all the wrong

54] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

55] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

56] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

57] You never know your luck

58] What’s done cannot be undone

59] Soft fire makes sweet malt

60] What is word but wind?

61] Make the best of a bad job

62] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

63] Nothing is so certain as death

64] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

65] Health is great riches

66] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

67] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

68] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

69] Even a worm will turn

70] Like mother, like daughter

71] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

72] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

73] It is misery enough to have once been happy

74] Let bygones be bygones

75] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

76] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

77] Silence and thinking can no man offend

78] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

79] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

80] A man can do no more than he can

81] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

82] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

83] Don’t meet trouble half-way

84] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

85] No flying without wings.

86] Lend never that thing you needed most

87] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

88] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

89] All men are mortal

90] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

91] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

92] Great actions speak minds

93] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

94] Much meat, much malady

95] Blue are the far away hills

96] The labourer is worthy of his hire

97] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

98] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

99] Every man must carry his own cross

100] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent