Famous Proverbs

1] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

2] Precepts may lead but examples draw

3] Exchange is no robbery

4] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

5] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

6] Blue are the far away hills

7] Hard words break no bones

8] Worse things happen at sea

9] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

10] Laughter makes good blood

11] Honesty is the best policy

12] He that wants health wants all

13] Every beginning is hard

14] He conquers who endures

15] He that eats least eats most

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

17] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

18] The fairest silk is soonest stained

19] Of two evils choose the lesser

20] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

21] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

22] The cobbler should stick to his last

23] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

24] Everything new is fine

25] Christmas comes but once a year

26] Fine words dress ill deeds

27] The best things carried to excess are wrong

28] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

29] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

30] A good name is sooner lost than won

31] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

32] Rich folk have many friends

33] Old habits die hard

34] A joke’s a very serious thing

35] Live and Learn

36] The best wine comes from an old vessel

37] The longest journey starts with a single step

38] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

39] All things for not all persons

40] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

41] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

42] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

43] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

44] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

45] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

46] A monk can’t shave his own head

47] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

48] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

49] The best fish swim near the bottom

50] Take time by the forelock

51] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

52] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

53] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

54] Silence is golden

55] The devil looks after his own

56] By falling we learn to go safely

57] No good building without a good foundation.

58] All truths are not to be told

59] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

60] Every oak has been an acorn

61] Patient men with the day.

62] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

63] There’s a time and place for everything

64] Truth has no need of rhetoric

65] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

66] Bear with evil and expect good

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

68] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

69] Variety is charming

70] Things are only worth one makes them worth

71] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

72] Tomorrow never comes

73] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

74] If you want peace, prepare for war

75] Poverty is no sin

76] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

77] Every man has his faults

78] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

79] Example, is better than precept

80] He who owes is in all the wrong

81] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

82] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

83] In indecision itself, grief is present.

84] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

85] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

86] Asking costs little

87] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

88] One fool praises another

89] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

90] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

91] Tomorrow is another day

92] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

93] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

94] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

95] He mediates revenge who least complains.

96] Rome was not built in a day

97] Manners and money make a gentleman

98] Set a thief to catch a thief

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

100] Eaten bread is soon forgotten