Famous Proverbs

1] Sow thin and mow thin

2] One good turn deserves another

3] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

4] Evil to him who evil thinks.

5] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

6] Hope is the poor man’s bread

7] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

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

9] Strike while the iron is hot

10] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

11] A short cut is often a wrong cut

12] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

13] He may find fault that cannot mend

14] Idle folks have the least leisure

15] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

16] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

17] Ready money is a ready remedy

18] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

19] A good paymaster needs no surety

20] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

21] Hope is the poor man’s bread

22] Acorns were good till bread was found

23] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

24] Grief pent up will break the heart

25] The good die young.

26] What cannot gold do?

27] Pursuits become habits

28] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

29] First impressions are the most lasting

30] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

31] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

32] Good words are worth much and cost little

33] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

34] The mob tramples on the coward

35] Youth and age will never agree

36] Conscience does make cowards of us all

37] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

38] It is more pain to do nothing than something

39] We live laws, not by examples

40] The darkest place is under the candlestick

41] The early bird catches the worm

42] Anger managers everything badly.

43] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

44] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

45] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

46] It is easier to pull down than to build

47] Hear twice before you speak once

48] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

49] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

50] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

51] Friends are thieves of time

52] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

53] All doors open to courtesy

54] When wine sinks, words swim

55] Pardon makes offenders

56] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

57] Words cut more than swords

58] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

59] Expectation is better than realisation

60] He who does no good, does evil enough

61] An old horse knows the route

62] You may have too much of a good thing

63] You cannot have your cake and eat it

64] One must be a servant before one can be a master

65] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

66] There is honour among thieves

67] The best things are hard to come by.

68] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

69] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

70] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

71] Little pitchers have big ears.

72] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

73] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

74] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

75] Few words are best

76] A good wife is a good prize

77] Many drops make a shower

78] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

79] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

80] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

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

82] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

83] He that is down need fear no fall

84] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

85] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

86] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

87] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

88] Common fame is a liar

89] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

90] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

91] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

92] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

93] In haste is error

94] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

95] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

96] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

97] Love your friend with his fault

98] A hungry man smells meat afar off

99] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

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