Famous Proverbs

1] Envy never enriched any man.

2] Home is home though it be never so homely

3] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

4] Wife and Children are bills of charges

5] Rome was not built in a day

6] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

7] From word to deed is a great space

8] Christmas comes but once a year

9] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

10] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

11] Few words are best

12] Out of sight, out of mind

13] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

14] Nothing is so certain as death

15] Two heads are better than one

16] Handsome is as handsome does

17] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

18] Much meat, much malady

19] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

20] Where there is peace, God is

21] Even reckoning makes long friends

22] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

23] No man is his craft’s master the first day

24] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

25] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

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

27] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

28] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

29] Coming events cast their shadows before

30] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

31] Love turns pimples

32] He that brings good news, knocks hard

33] The grace of God enough

34] In haste is error

35] To err is human

36] New lords, new laws

37] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

38] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

39] All lay loads on a willing horse

40] Dirty linen should be washed at home

41] All griefs with bread are less

42] Care killed the cat

43] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

44] See how the wind blows

45] If you play with fire you get burnt

46] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

47] No man is wise at all times

48] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

49] Too much money makes one mad

50] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

51] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

52] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

53] Penny wise, pound foolish

54] Truth is mighty and will prevail

55] Double charge will rive a cannon

56] Nature surpasses art

57] Custom reconciles us to everything

58] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

59] There is nothing lost by civility

60] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

61] What can’t be cured must be endured

62] It is not every question that deserves an answer

63] Love me, love the crows on my roof

64] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

65] Boys will be boys

66] One of these days is none of these days

67] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

68] Manners make the man

69] Kindness lies in one side of the house

70] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

71] He travels the fastest who travels alone

72] The pen is the tongue of the hand

73] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

74] Morning dreams come true

75] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

76] Bear and forbear

77] There is a great difference between words and deeds

78] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

79] Don’t tell tales out of school

80] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

81] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

82] Love is lawless.

83] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

84] Beware of him who makes thee presents

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

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

87] Spend and be free, but make no waste

88] He that talks much, errs much

89] A good wife makes a good husband

90] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

91] Worse things happen at sea

92] Every cloud has a silver lining

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

94] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

95] Variety is charming

96] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

97] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

98] A man can do no more than he can

99] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

100] The dog is a lion in his own house