Famous Proverbs

1] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

2] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

3] Of a new prince, new bondage

4] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

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

6] Ill news comes unsent for.

7] Extremes are dangerous

8] You can’t win them all

9] Better children weep than old men

10] A gift much expected is paid, not given

11] Silence never makes mistakes

12] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

13] Nature is the true law

14] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

15] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

16] A good lather is half the shave

17] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

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

19] Creditors have better memories than debtors

20] You may know by a handful the whole sack

21] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

22] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

23] Patience is a virtue

24] Saying is one thing, and doing another

25] A burnt child dreads the fire

26] All things are possible with god

27] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

28] God’s lambs will play.

29] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

30] There is many a true word spoken in jest

31] One swallow does not make a summer

32] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

33] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

34] That which is easily done is soon believed

35] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

36] New meat begets a new appetite

37] Prove your friend ere you have need

38] You are never too old to learn

39] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

40] In wine there is truth

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

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

43] The money you refuse will never do you good

44] No good building without a good foundation.

45] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

46] Covetousness breaks the sack

47] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

48] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

49] Almost’ never killed a fly.

50] Blue are the far away hills

51] Better belly burst than good meat lost

52] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

53] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

54] Hunger breaks stone walls

55] We shall lie all alike in our graves

56] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

57] Truth has no need of rhetoric

58] There is no fool like an old fool

59] A piece of churchyard fits every body

60] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

61] Better bend than break

62] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

63] Other times, other manners

64] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

65] As you bake, so shall you eat.

66] Cut your coat according to your cloth

67] An evil life is a kind of death.

68] The sign brings customers

69] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

70] What everybody says must be true

71] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

72] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

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

74] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

75] Learning is the eye of the mind

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

77] It is all in the day’s work

78] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

79] Things past cannot be recalled

80] Laughter makes good blood

81] It is as natural to die as to be born

82] Success makes a fool seem wise.

83] In the land of hope there is never any winter

84] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

85] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

86] Love me, love my dog

87] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

88] Everything would fain live

89] All lay loads on a willing horse

90] Keep some till further more come

91] Life means strife

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

93] Jesters do oft prove prophets

94] Desire beautifies what is ugly

95] No like is the same.

96] The borrower is servant to the lender

97] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

98] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

99] Men do more things through habit than reason

100] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.