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Famous Proverbs

1] Variety is the spice of life
2] Truth has a good face but bad clothes
3] Abundance, like want, ruins many
4] There is no redemption from hell
5] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams
6] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
7] Care brings grey hair.
8] No man is wise at all times
9] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?
10] Stolen pleasures are sweetest
11] Do right and fear no man
12] Like breeds like
13] Nothing comes from nothing
14] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth
15] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is
16] Eggs and oaths are easily broken
17] Jesters do oft prove prophets
18] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer
19] Procrastination is the thief of time
20] Goodness is better than beauty
21] Soon hot, soon cold
22] Virtue is the only true nobility
23] You cannot make a crab walk straight
24] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill
25] Water is the king of food
26] The best wine comes from an old vessel
27] Love delights in praise
28] Spare the rod and spoil the child
29] Precepts may lead but examples draw
30] Of one ill come many
31] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt
32] Wine is the best broom for trouble
33] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save
34] Birds once snared fear all bushes
35] Human blood is all of a colour
36] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side
37] Every man is the architect of his own fortune
38] Success makes a fool seem wise.
39] Better a lean peace than a fat victory
40] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take
41] The unexpected always happens.
42] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency
43] Care is no cure
44] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty
45] Man proposes, God disposes
46] Sometimes the best gain is to lose
47] He who considers too much will perform little.
48] Never grieve for what you cannot help
49] Little things are great to little men
50] Health is great riches
51] Enough is as good as a feast
52] Better be alone than in bad company
53] It is no use crying over spilt milk
54] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice
55] He that has plenty of goods will have more
56] Even silence may be eloquent
57] Variety is charming
58] A prophet is without honour in his own country
59] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due
60] Lookers-on see more than players
61] The bait hides the hook
62] By his deeds we know a man
63] There is many a fair thing full false
64] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.
65] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.
66] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions
67] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill
68] Accidents will happen
69] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
70] The fox may grow grey, but never good
71] Better sit still than rise and fall
72] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens
73] Every why has a wherefore
74] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate
75] Set a thief to catch a thief
76] Covetousness is the root of all evil
77] Our own opinion is never wrong
78] Dumb dogs are dangerous
79] Forbidden fruit is sweetest
80] A fault once denied is twice committed
81] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
82] All things are easy, that are done willingly
83] Revenge is sweet
84] Take the will for the deed
85] Company in misery makes it light
86] Bind the sack before it be full
87] An oak is not felled at one stroke
88] Lookers-on see most of the game
89] As you brew, so shall you drink.
90] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes
91] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t
92] Bind the sack before it be full
93] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb
94] Rust wastes more than use
95] Better wear out shoes than sheers.
96] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses
97] Necessity breaks iron
98] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs
99] Let the buyer beware
100] If anything can go wrong, it will



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