Famous Proverbs

1] Every man is his own worst enemy

2] The leopard cannot change its spots

3] The more you get, the more you want

4] Wine unveils the words of the heart

5] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

6] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

7] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

8] To teach is to learn twice over

9] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

10] Better the foot slip than the tongue

11] Make the best of a bad job

12] Where there is whispering there is lying

13] Home is where the heart is

14] Ill news comes apace.

15] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

16] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

17] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

18] Love cannot be compelled

19] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

20] The eye is bigger than the belly

21] Never say die

22] An honest good look covers many faults.

23] Look before you leap

24] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

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

26] Work smart; don’t work hard

27] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

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

29] Plain dealing is best

30] A black hen lays a white egg

31] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

32] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

33] Union (or Unity) is strength

34] A rich man can do nothing wrong

35] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

36] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

37] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

38] Bind the sack before it be full

39] Live and Learn

40] A knave and a fool never take thought

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

42] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

43] Vice makes virtue shine

44] One barber shaves another gratis

45] Discontent is the first step in progress

46] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

47] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

48] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

49] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

50] One hand washes the other

51] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

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

53] Cheats never prosper

54] It is more blessed to give than to receive

55] Learn to walk before you run

56] Dogs bark as they are bred.

57] Ill gotten, ill spent

58] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

59] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

60] Well begun is half done.

61] Well begun is half done.

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

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

64] They are rich who have true friends

65] God’s lambs will play.

66] The thing which is rare is dear

67] Danger makes men devout

68] The weeds overgrow the corn.

69] Things are seldom what they seem.

70] A penny saved is a penny gained

71] A good lather is half the shave

72] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

73] The bait hides the hook

74] Words and feathers the wind carries away

75] It never rains it pours

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

77] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

78] As you sow, so shall you reap

79] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

80] Gluttony kills more than the sword

81] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

82] Poor men’s words have little weight

83] Let bygones be bygones

84] Every groom is a king at home

85] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

86] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

87] Ambition loses many a man

88] Every man has his price

89] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

90] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

91] Wife and Children are bills of charges

92] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

93] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

94] As you brew, so shall you drink.

95] One man sows and another reaps

96] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

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

98] Tell a lie and stick to it.

99] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

100] Dumb men get no lands