PROVERBS
A bad husband cannot
be a good man.
A bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush.
A child is better
unborn than untaught.
A glutton lives to
eat; a wise man eats to live.
A good friend never
offends.
A great city, a great
solitude.
A horse hired, never
tired.
A human soul without
education is like marble in the quarry.
A little bird wants
but a little nest.
A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing.
A man knows his
companion on a long journey and in a little inn.
A man without money is
a bow without an arrow.
A man’s house is his
castle.
A reconciled friend is
a double enemy.
A thief passes for a
gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
Advice must be timely,
to be of service.
After dinner, sit
awhile; after supper, walk a mile.
After melon, wine is a
felon.
All is not butter that
comes from the cow.
All is not gold that
glitters.
All is wrong that has
begun improperly.
An apple a day keeps
the doctor away.
An ass laden with gold
overtakes everything.
Art has an enemy
called ignorance.
As you make your bed,
so you must lie in it.
Beauty is potent, but
money is omnipotent.
Beauty provokes
thieves sooner than gold.
Better is small fish
than empty dish.
Better late than
never.
Birds of a feather
flock together.
Butter is gold in the
morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
Charity begins at
home.
Clear autumn, windy
winter.
Cut your coat
according to your cloth.
Do good, and then do
it again.
Do not dwell in a city
whose governor is a physician.
Dogs that bark at a
distance never bite.
Dry bread at home is
better than roast meat abroad.
Early to bed and early
to rise/Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
East and West, home is
best.
Eggs of an hour, fish
of ten, bread of a day, wine of a year.
Every bird likes its
own nest.
Every man has his
price.
Extreme justice is
often extreme injustice.
First come, first
served.
Fools build houses,
and wise men live in them.
Fresh fish and
strangers smell in three days.
Friendship increases
in visiting friends, but more in visiting them seldom.
God sent meat and
devil send cooks.
Gold is the sovereign
of all sovereigns.
Good clothes open all
doors.
Good health is above
wealthy.
Good wife makes a good
husband.
Have a place for
everything, and everything in its place.
He is not a wise man
who cannot play the fool on occasion.
He that has no silver
in his purse, should have silver in his tongue.
He that plants trees
loves others besides himself.
He, that prays harm
for his neighbour, begs a curse upon himself.
He who laughs last
laughs best.
Home is not merely
four walls/Home is where affection calls.
Honesty is the best
policy.
Honour thy father and
thy mother.
Hope is a good
breakfast but a bad supper.
Hunger finds no fault
with the cookery.
Hunger is the best
sauce.
If you sing before
breakfast, you’ll cry before night.
In the end, the things
will send.
Jack of all trades,
master of none.
Keep to your place,
and your place will keep you.
Knowledge is no
burden.
Laziness is mother of
all vices.
Learning makes a good
man better, and an ill man worse.
Little is better than
nothing.
Meat and cloth make
the man.
Men are not to be
measured by inches.
Men make houses, women
make homes.
Money, like manure,
does no good till it is spread.
More haste, less
speed.
More roads than one
lead to Rome.
Mother-in-law and
daughter-in-law are a tempest and a hail storm.
Nature, time and
patience are the three great physicians.
Necessity is the
mother of invention.
Never put off till
tomorrow what you can do today.
Never write what you
dare not sign.
No bees, no honey; no
work no money.
Nothing that comes
from the cow is lost.
Observation is the
best teacher.
One father is better
than a hundred school-masters.
Opportunity makes the
thief.
Out of the sight, out
of mind.
Pardon is the most
glorious revenge.
Patience and
perseverance are the parents of success.
Plant the bean when
the moon is light, plant potatoes when the moon is dark.
Poetry delights the
young, philosophy interests the old.
Politeness costs
nothing.
Punctuality is the
soul of the business.
Rome was not built in
one day.
Slow and sure.
Still waters run deep.
Strike while the iron
is hot.
The eye is the mirror
of the soul.
The house shows the
owner.
The more laws, the
more offenders.
The road to hell is
paved with good intentions.
The rule in gardening,
we must not forget,/To sow when it’s dry, and to plant when it’s wet.
They are right who
thing so.
They that have no
other meat/Bread-and-butter are glad to eat.
Thinking to please
every one we satisfy no one.
Three women make a
market, four a fair.
Time and tide wait for
no man.
Time is money.
Tomorrow never comes.
Too many cooks spoil
the broth.
Walls have ears.
Water dropping day by
day, wears the hardest rock away.
Water, fire and
soldiers quickly make room.
We are never too old
to learn.
We learn to read by
reading.
When fortune is lost,
nothing is lost;/When health is lost, something is lost;/When honour is lost,
everything is lost.
When friends meet
hearts warm.