Famous Proverbs

1] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

2] A good name is better than riches

3] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

4] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

5] When one door shuts, another opens

6] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

7] Wife and Children are bills of charges

8] All for one, and one for all.

9] Threatened folk live long

10] Hard cases make bad law

11] Appetite comes with eating

12] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

13] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

14] Boys will be boys

15] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

16] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

17] A good word stills great anger

18] It is too late to look up after you have collided

19] A knave and a fool never take thought

20] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

21] Waste is not grandeur

22] Past cure, past care

23] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

24] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

25] It’s a long lane that has no turning

26] Circumstances alter cases

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

28] The last drop makes the cup run over

29] He that has plenty of goods will have more

30] The fox may grow grey, but never good

31] By his deeds we know a man

32] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

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

34] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

35] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

36] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

37] Charity begins at home.

38] Learn to walk before you run

39] A rolling stone gathers no moss

40] Better eye sore than al blind

41] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

42] Don’t kick against the pricks

43] More have repented speech than silence

44] Two heads are better than one

45] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

46] It is no use crying over spilt milk

47] You know what you can do till you try.

48] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

49] Money is the sinews of war

50] Little by little and bit by bit.

51] The greatest step is that out of doors

52] The road to hell is paved with good action

53] Wake not a sleeping lion

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

55] Better beg than steal.

56] There’s no place like home

57] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

58] Judge not the tree by its bark

59] Who greases his way travels easily

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

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

62] A miss is as good as a mile

63] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

64] He that is born a fool is never cured

65] He who demands does not command

66] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

67] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

68] A woman’s work is never done

69] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

70] When the word is out it belongs to another

71] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

72] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

73] He gives twice who gives quickly

74] Fools grow without watering.

75] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

76] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

77] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

78] A man in debt is caught in a net

79] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

80] Look before you leap

81] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

82] Better be born lucky than wise.

83] Man cannot live by bread alone

84] All things for not all persons

85] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

86] What is money to a cat?

87] So many men, so many opinions

88] A piece of churchyard fits every body

89] Keep some till further more come

90] Never grieve for what you cannot help

91] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

92] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

93] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

94] Haste is of (or from) the devil

95] Take the tone of the company you are in

96] The cowl does not make the monk.

97] A word to the wise is enough

98] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

99] Ambition loses many a man

100] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it