Famous Proverbs

1] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

2] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

3] Worse things happen at sea

4] Like mother, like daughter

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

6] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

7] He who serves is not free

8] The goat must browse where she is tied

9] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

10] A wise man hears one word and understands two

11] Every may be has a may not be

12] Be just before you are generous

13] Envy never enriched any man.

14] Better ask the way than go astray

15] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

16] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

17] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

18] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

19] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

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

21] Love me, love the crows on my roof

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

23] Opportunity makes the thief

24] Barking dogs seldom bite

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

26] The game is not worth the candle

27] Remember, you are but a man

28] Every why has a wherefore

29] Honesty is ill to thrive by

30] No man limps because another is hurt

31] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

32] One good turn deserves another

33] Love is sweet torment

34] Health without money is half an ague

35] A fool may give a wise man counsel

36] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

37] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

38] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

39] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

40] The good die young.

41] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

42] Beware of a silent man and still water

43] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

44] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

45] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

46] A man’s studies pass in to his character

47] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

48] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

49] Soon gotten, soon spent

50] Charity begins at home.

51] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

52] Every little helps

53] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

54] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

55] Poverty is no sin

56] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

57] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

58] In my own house, I am king

59] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

60] The first step is the hardest

61] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

62] Birds of a feather flock together

63] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

64] Bread is the staff of life.

65] Nature will have her course

66] There is no accounting for tastes

67] Stolen goods never thrive

68] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

69] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

70] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

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

72] He who comes late must eat what is left

73] All doors open to courtesy

74] Money is the only monarch

75] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

76] Desert and reward seldom keep company

77] Step by step the ladder is ascended

78] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

79] Affection blinds reason

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

81] Alms never make poor

82] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

83] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

84] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

85] He that speaks well, flights well

86] Manners and money make a gentleman

87] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

88] A good heart conquers ill fortune

89] Blue are the far away hills

90] One man’s loss is another’s gain

91] The tailor makes the man

92] Money is the root of all evil

93] As you sow, so shall you reap

94] Health is great riches

95] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

96] New meat begets a new appetite

97] The best of friends must part

98] We have all been once in our life

99] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

100] Adversity makes strange bedfellows