A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
A clean hand wants no washing.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
A close mouth catches no flies.
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
A cracked bell can never sound well.
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
A curst cow has short horns.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A drop in the bucket.
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
A fault confessed is half redressed.
A fool always rushes to the fore.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
A fool’s tongue runs before his wit.
A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
A foul morn may turn to a fair day.
A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A bargain is a bargain.
A beggar can never be bankrupt.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A bird may be known by its song.
A blind leader of the blind.
A blind man would be glad to see.
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
A burden of one’s own choice is not felt.
A city that parleys is half gotten.
A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
A friend is never known till needed.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
A friend’s frown is better than a foe’s smile.
A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
A great ship asks deep waters.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
A hungry man is an angry man.
A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
A lawyer never goes to law himself.
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
A silent fool is counted wise.
A small leak will sink a great ship.
A soft answer turns away wrath.
A sound mind in a sound body.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
After a storm comes a calm.
Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
Best defense is offence.
Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
Courtesy : proverbs
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