Famous Proverbs

1] Discontent is the first step in progress

2] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

3] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

4] Do as you would be done by

5] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

6] No honest man ever repented his honesty

7] No man limps because another is hurt

8] He who teaches learns

9] In haste is error

10] A learned man has always riches in himself

11] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

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

13] A fault confessed is half redressed

14] Good fame is better than a good face

15] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

16] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

17] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

18] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

19] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

20] What will not money do?

21] Lookers-on see more than players

22] Diligence is the mother of good luck

23] Do as you would be done by

24] Faint heart never won fair lady

25] Fools grow without watering.

26] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

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

28] Confess and be hanged

29] Little by little and bit by bit.

30] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

31] Like father, like son

32] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

33] What the king wills, that the law wills

34] Patience surpasses learning

35] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

36] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

37] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

38] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

39] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

40] Go while the going is good

41] What is money to a cat?

42] It is best to be on the safe side

43] It is misery enough to have once been happy

44] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

45] Success has many friends

46] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

47] Let sleeping dogs lie

48] A jest breaks no bones

49] He that will thrive must rise at five

50] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

51] Stolen goods never thrive

52] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

53] Do as the friar says, not as he does

54] Love and business teach eloquence

55] Men are blind in their own cause

56] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

57] Double charge will rive a cannon

58] Prospect is often better than possession

59] Life means strife

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

61] First impressions are half the battle

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

63] Things are only worth one makes them worth

64] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

65] Let us do evil that good may come

66] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

67] Beauty opens locked doors

68] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

69] The voice is the best music

70] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

71] Take the tone of the company you are in

72] New things are fair

73] In fair weather prepare for foul

74] Take away fuel, take away flame

75] Walls have ears

76] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

77] A little impatience will spoil great plans

78] A jack of all traders is master of none

79] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

80] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

81] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

82] No road is long with good company

83] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

84] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

85] Covetousness is the root of all evil

86] In wine there is truth

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

88] Loyalty is worth more than money

89] When in doubt, do nothing

90] What cannot gold do?

91] New brooms sweep clean

92] The more laws, the more offenders

93] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

94] Half a word is enough for a wise man

95] Stolen goods never thrive

96] The receiver is as bad as the thief

97] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

98] Better bend than break

99] Every advantage has its disadvantage

100] Without luck, it is better not to be born