Famous Proverbs

1] One sheep follows another

2] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

3] The more cost, the more honour

4] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

5] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

6] Without diligence, no prize

7] Content is better than riches

8] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

9] Every groom is a king at home

10] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

11] Dirty linen should be washed at home

12] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

13] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

14] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

15] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

16] Nothing crave, nothing have

17] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

18] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

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

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

21] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

22] The age of miracles is past

23] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

24] What is a workman without his tools?

25] More have repented speech than silence

26] Union (or Unity) is strength

27] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

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

29] All things are possible with god

30] Prove your friend ere you have need

31] Let like mate with like

32] Money is the root of all evil

33] Borrowed garments never fit well

34] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

35] A rich man’s joke is always funny

36] The more laws, the more offenders

37] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

38] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

39] When meat is in anger is out

40] Gluttony kills more than the sword

41] Don’t cry stinking fish

42] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

43] Old cattle breed not

44] One reason is as good as fifty

45] One foot is better than two crutches

46] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

47] Love is blind

48] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

49] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

50] Dirty water does not wash clean.

51] Enough is as good as a feast

52] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

53] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

54] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

55] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

56] Creditors have better memories than debtors

57] The faulty stands on his guard

58] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

59] The devil dances in an empty pocket

60] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

61] Misfortune does not always come to injure

62] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

63] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

64] A true man and a thief think not the same

65] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

66] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

67] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

68] Don’t ride the high horse

69] He that has good money, gives few alms

70] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

71] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

72] Hitch your wagon to a star

73] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

74] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

75] Penny and penny laid up will be many

76] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

77] In my own house, I am king

78] Even reckoning makes long friends

79] Diligence is the mother of good luck

80] Delays are not denials

81] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

82] Travel broadens the mind

83] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

84] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

85] Long life has long misery

86] Do as say, not as I do

87] Great hopes make great men

88] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

89] Out of sight, out of mind

90] Patient men with the day.

91] Truth is god’s daughter

92] Good is good but better carries it

93] Distance lends enchantment to the view

94] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

95] Sooner begun, sooner done

96] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

97] Ale will make a cat speak

98] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

99] Truth is god’s daughter

100] Better late than never