Famous Proverbs

1] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

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

3] Blue are the far away hills

4] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

5] When bees area old, they yield n honey

6] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

7] First impressions are most lasting

8] The borrower is servant to the lender

9] Quickly come, quickly go

10] The greatest step is that out of doors

11] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

12] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

13] Confess and be hanged

14] Open confession is good for the soul

15] A scalded cat fears hot water.

16] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

17] Anything will fit a naked man.

18] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

19] A word spoken is past recalling

20] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

21] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

22] Weak things united become strong

23] Birds of a feather flock together

24] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

25] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

26] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

27] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

28] Like will to like

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

30] Friends agree best at a distance

31] Many words, many buffets

32] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

33] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

34] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

35] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

36] Coming events cast their shadows before

37] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

38] First impressions are half the battle

39] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

40] First impressions are half the battle

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

42] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

43] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

44] Better late than never, but better never late

45] Repentance comes too late

46] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

47] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

48] Nothing crave, nothing have

49] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

50] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

51] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

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

53] Silence and thinking can no man offend

54] There’s always room at the top

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

56] Hitch your wagon to a star

57] A door must be either shut or open

58] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

59] Advice when most needed is least heeded

60] As you brew, so shall you drink.

61] Tigers and deer do not over.

62] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

63] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

64] Two blacks do not make a white

65] No remedy but patience

66] All truths are not to be told

67] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

68] Covetousness brings nothing home

69] Jack is as good as his master

70] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

71] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

72] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

73] A good servant must have good wages

74] What’s done cannot be undone

75] Choose thy company before thy drink

76] The thread breaks where it is weakest

77] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

78] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

79] A good conscience is a constant feast

80] No man so good but another may be as good as he

81] Judge not, that ye be not judged

82] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

83] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

84] Better be safe than sorry

85] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

86] Where there is peace, there is blessing

87] None but the brave deserves the fair

88] Never too late to repent

89] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

90] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

91] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

92] Friends are thieves of time

93] Between two stools you fall to the ground

94] One must howl with the wolves

95] A good conscience is a soft pillow

96] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

97] There is no smoke without fire

98] Small is the seed of every greatness

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

100] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place