Famous Proverbs

1] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

2] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

3] Dirty linen should be washed at home

4] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

5] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

6] Love delights in praise

7] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

8] As you sow, so shall you reap

9] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

10] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

11] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

12] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

13] Soon gotten, soon spent

14] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

15] He that is absent is soon forgotten

16] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

17] Praise no man till he is dead.

18] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

19] Mere wishes are silly fishes

20] Debt is an evil conscience

21] When the word is out it belongs to another

22] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

23] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

24] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

25] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

26] Necessity is the mother of invention

27] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

28] Good luck beats early rising

29] First catch your hare

30] In indecision itself, grief is present.

31] Gifts blind the eyes.

32] A good tongue is a good weapon

33] Hunger is sharper than the sword

34] Great gain makes easy work

35] An Englishman’s home is his castle

36] Necessity is mother of invention

37] First impressions are the most lasting

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

39] A good example is the best sermon

40] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

41] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

42] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

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

44] You cannot make bricks without straw

45] A short cut is often a wrong cut

46] Do it now

47] Practice what you preach

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

49] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

50] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

51] Fear of death is worse than death itself

52] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

53] Misfortune makes foes of friends

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

55] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

56] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

57] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

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

59] The belly carries the legs

60] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

61] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

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

63] The day obliterates the promise of the might

64] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

65] Half an egg is better than empty shell

66] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

67] Asking costs little

68] It is too late to husband when all is spent

69] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

70] He who begins many things, finishes but few

71] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

72] Good to begin well, better to end well.

73] Don’t take your harp to the party

74] Money is power

75] A woman’s work is never done

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

77] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

78] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

79] No day so clear but has dark clouds

80] Think on the end before you begin

81] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

82] No garden without its weeds.

83] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

84] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

85] Poor men’s words have little weight

86] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

87] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

88] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

89] He that seeks trouble never misses

90] He that has no money needs no purse

91] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

92] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

93] A good marksman may miss

94] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

95] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

96] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

97] The devil lurks behind the cross

98] All our pomp the earth covers

99] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

100] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles