Famous Proverbs

1] Love conquers all

2] Better to be safe than sorry.

3] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

4] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

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

6] A good heart cannot lie.

7] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

8] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

9] Bad news travels fast

10] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

11] Don’t kick against the pricks

12] A rich man can do nothing wrong

13] Enough is enough

14] Change of pasture makes fat calves

15] Better say noting than no to the purpose

16] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

17] Death is the grand leveler

18] Poverty is no sin

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

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

21] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

22] Work smart; don’t work hard

23] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

24] A bad workman always blames his tools

25] A fool believes everything

26] Circumstances alter cases

27] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

28] Extremes are dangerous

29] Little by little and bit by bit.

30] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

31] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

32] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

33] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

34] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

35] A crust is better than no bread.

36] Every law has a loophole

37] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

38] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

39] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

40] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

41] The highest tree has the greatest fall

42] In fair weather prepare for foul

43] Money is the sinews of war

44] He who demands does not command

45] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

46] There is no time like the present

47] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

48] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

49] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

50] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

51] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

52] Men do more things through habit than reason

53] Every man praises his own wares

54] Patient men with the day.

55] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

56] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

57] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

58] No man is indispensable

59] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

60] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

61] Ill news comes unsent for.

62] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

63] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

64] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

65] It is easy to be wise after the event

66] The faulty stands on his guard

67] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

68] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

69] Debt is an evil conscience

70] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

71] Many doctors, death accomplished

72] Desires are nourished by delays

73] A willful man will have his way

74] Every shoe fits not every foot

75] There is nothing lost by civility

76] Easy come, easy go

77] Acorns were good till bread was found

78] Do not kick against the pricks

79] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

80] No misfortune will go on forever

81] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

82] Asking costs little

83] Care is no cure

84] Men are known by the company they keep.

85] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

86] They are rich who have true friends

87] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

88] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

89] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

90] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

91] First creep, then walk

92] The longest journey starts with a single step

93] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

94] Crows are all completely black

95] A good lather is half the shave

96] One sheep follows another

97] As soon as there is life there is danger

98] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

99] Many hands make light work

100] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise