Famous Proverbs

1] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

2] Train the child in the way he should go.

3] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

4] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

5] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

6] Sow thin and mow thin

7] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

8] Abundance, like want, ruins many

9] Let us do evil that good may come

10] Every light has its shadow

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

12] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

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

14] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

15] The word is far him who has patience

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

17] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

18] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

19] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

20] Make the best of a bad job

21] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

22] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

23] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

24] He that lives ill, fear follows him

25] Do not triumph before the victory

26] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

27] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

28] Who suffers much is silent

29] The fairest flowers soonest fade

30] Full of courtesy, full of craft

31] The last suitor wins the maid

32] Lend your money and lose a friend

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

34] Affection blinds reason

35] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

36] III luck is good for something

37] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

38] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

39] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

40] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

41] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

42] It is well to live that one may learn

43] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

44] Great hopes make great men

45] Death keeps no calendar

46] Valour delights in the test

47] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

48] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

49] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

50] All is vanity.

51] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

52] There is many a true word spoken in jest

53] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

54] Better no doctor at all than three.

55] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

56] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

57] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

58] Wise men silent, fools talk

59] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

60] He that has good money, gives few alms

61] Money is the sinews of war

62] Soon hot, soon cold

63] Nothing is given so freely as advice

64] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

65] Love turns pimples

66] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

67] Big words seldom go with good deeds

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

69] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

70] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

71] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

72] Too much curiosity lost paradise

73] An old dog barks not in vain

74] The best go first

75] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

76] A little body often harbours a great soul

77] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

78] Wise men silent, fools talk

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

80] A golden key opens every door

81] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

82] What has been, may be

83] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

84] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

85] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

86] No one ought to judge in his own cause

87] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

88] Much learning makes men mad

89] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

90] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

91] The good intention excuses the bad action

92] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

93] Discretion is the better part of valour

94] First impressions are half the battle

95] Call no man happy till he is dead

96] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

97] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

98] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

99] Take the tone of the company you are in

100] Don’t kick against the pricks