Famous Proverbs

1] The leopard cannot change its spots

2] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

3] Practice what you preach

4] There is no smoke without fire

5] Tomorrow is another day

6] Think on the end before you begin

7] Small is the seed of every greatness

8] Slow help is no help

9] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

10] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

11] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

12] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

13] Necessity is mother of invention

14] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

15] They also serve who only stand and wait

16] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

17] The darkest place is under the candlestick

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

19] Homo is a common name to all men.

20] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

21] Hitch your wagon to a star

22] Wrong never comes right

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

24] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

25] There is none misfortune cannot reach

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

27] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

28] Distance lends enchantment to the view

29] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

30] Work won’t kill but worry will.

31] Everything would fain live

32] A merchant that gains not, loses

33] Soon hot, soon cold

34] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

35] Much law but little justice

36] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

37] He is rich that has few wants

38] A traveller may lie with authority

39] He who envies admits his inferiority

40] They are rich who have true friends

41] Praise is always pleasant

42] All things are difficult before they are easy

43] What is word but wind?

44] Seek and you shall find

45] Give the devil his due

46] Through hardship to the stars

47] One is never too old to learn

48] When the word is out it belongs to another

49] Good counsel never comes amiss

50] A watched pot never boils

51] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

52] Spend and be free, but make no waste

53] A gift much expected is paid, not given

54] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

55] Not even Hercules could contend against two

56] If today will not, tomorrow may

57] There is nothing that costs less than civility

58] Gold is tried in the fire

59] Self-praise is no recommendation

60] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

61] The absent saint gets no candle

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

63] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

64] Full of courtesy, full of craft

65] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

66] Fools rejoice at promises

67] Love can find a way

68] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

69] First impressions are most lasting

70] Easier said than done

71] The great fish eat up the small

72] No wrong without a remedy

73] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

74] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

75] Money is the sinew of affairs

76] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

77] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

78] The mean is the best

79] Much science, much sorrow

80] Virtue joints man to god

81] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

82] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

83] Kindness lies in one side of the house

84] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

85] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

86] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

87] He who considers too much will perform little.

88] A good lather is half the shave

89] Where there is peace, there is blessing

90] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

91] The tongue talks at the heads cost

92] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

93] Money refused loses its brightness

94] Habit is second nature

95] He may find fault that cannot mend

96] Sooner begun, sooner done

97] Variety is the spice of life

98] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

99] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

100] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes