Famous Proverbs

1] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

2] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

3] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

4] An open door may tempt a saint

5] Eat to live and not live to eat.

6] He that brings good news, knocks hard

7] God’s lambs will play.

8] Cleanliness is next to godliness

9] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

10] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

11] Water is the king of food

12] New lords, new laws

13] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

14] Cowards die many times before their deaths

15] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

16] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

17] It is good to follow the old fox

18] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

19] Wedlock is padlock

20] Appearances are deceptive

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

22] Out of sight, out of mind

23] A good heart cannot lie.

24] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

25] Revenge never repairs an injury

26] It is more blessed to give than to receive

27] Work expands so as to fill the time available

28] A friend is easier lost than found

29] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

30] Nothing is so certain as death

31] What the king wills, that the law wills

32] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

33] True doctrines require no miracles

34] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

35] A rich man can do nothing wrong

36] Sorrow will pay no debt

37] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

38] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

39] Every medal has two sides

40] The devil looks after his own

41] The pot calls the kettle black

42] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

43] Every man to his trade.

44] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

45] United we stand, divided we fall

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

47] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

48] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

49] Almost’ never killed a fly.

50] Big fish eat little fish

51] Corn him well and he will work better

52] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

53] The end makes all equal

54] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

55] He who comes late must eat what is left

56] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

57] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

58] A bad padlock invites a picklock

59] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

60] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

61] An old man is a bed full of bones

62] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

63] None but the brave deserves the fair

64] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

65] Dumb men get no lands

66] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

67] Work smart; don’t work hard

68] Beware of a silent man and still water

69] Marriages are made in heaven

70] Love sees no fault

71] Revenge is sweet

72] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

73] Ready money is ready medicine

74] The sign brings customers

75] Think on the end before you begin

76] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

77] Love sees no fault

78] Enough is as good as a feast

79] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

80] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

81] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

82] Birds once snared fear all bushes

83] Friendship should not be all on one side

84] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

85] A bad padlock invites a picklock

86] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

87] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

88] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

89] Children learn to creep ere they can go

90] Better an apple given than eaten

91] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

92] Health is better than wealth

93] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

94] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

95] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

96] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

97] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

98] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

99] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

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