Famous Proverbs

1] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

2] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

3] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

4] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

5] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

6] When one door shuts, another opens

7] Hungry bellies have no ears

8] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

9] Debt is an evil conscience

10] Few words are best

11] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

12] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

13] Many a little makes a mickle

14] The resolved mind has no cares

15] There is honour among thieves

16] He who leaps high must take a long run

17] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

18] Many hands make light work

19] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

20] You never know your luck

21] The more you have the more you want

22] Health is great riches

23] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

24] Better sit still than rise and fall

25] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

26] The voice is the best music

27] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

28] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

29] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

30] Fair face, foul heart

31] Life begins only in success

32] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

33] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

34] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

35] Of evil manners, spring good laws

36] Fine words dress ill deeds

37] The devil knows many things because he is old

38] Take things as they come

39] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

40] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

41] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

42] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

43] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

44] Money talks

45] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

46] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

47] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

48] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

49] Let the buyer beware

50] Better to wear out than rust out

51] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

52] A miss is as good as a mile

53] An army marches on its stomach

54] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

55] Crowns have cares

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

57] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

58] Old cattle breed not

59] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

60] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

61] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

62] Brevity is the soul of wit

63] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

64] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

65] What is deferred is not abandoned

66] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

67] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

68] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

69] No feast lasts forever.

70] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

71] Old cattle breed not

72] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

73] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

74] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

75] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

76] It is not work that kills but worry

77] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

78] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

79] Custom reconciles us to everything

80] Every medal has two sides

81] He that ventures not fails not.

82] The envious man shall never want woe

83] The more laws, the more offenders

84] Fine feathers make fine birds.

85] Example, is better than precept

86] The labour we delight in physics pain

87] You cannot make a crab walk straight

88] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

89] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

90] After a storm comes a calm

91] No tie can oblige the perfidious

92] Wink at small faults

93] The best fish swim near the bottom

94] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

95] Practice makes perfect

96] Opportunity makes the thief

97] The longest journey starts with a single step

98] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

99] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

100] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast