Famous Proverbs

1] Better be a fool than a knave

2] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

3] Honest is the best policy

4] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

5] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

6] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

7] No man is wise at all times

8] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

9] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

10] It is a shame to be shameless

11] Every may be has a may not be

12] The best of friends must part

13] Never judge from appearances

14] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

15] From word to deed is a great space

16] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

17] Nothing is given so freely as advice

18] Let not your tongue run at rover

19] Suffering does not manifest itself

20] Flesh is frail

21] Be just before you are generous

22] What is worse than ill luck?

23] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

24] A man with no hands is given a ring.

25] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

26] Wisdom is better than strength

27] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

28] Fair face, foul heart

29] The biter is sometimes bit

30] Put not the bucket too often in the well

31] Will is the cause of woe

32] Numbers overcome the brave

33] Divide and rule

34] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

35] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

36] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

37] Every dog is valiant at his won door

38] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

39] Sooner begun, sooner done

40] Necessity knows no law

41] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

42] You cannot serve God and Mammon

43] Fair play’s a jewel

44] Repentance comes too late

45] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

46] Prevention is better than cure

47] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

48] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

49] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

50] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

51] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

52] Mirth is the sugar of life

53] Out of sight, out of mind

54] Example, is better than precept

55] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

56] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

57] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

58] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

59] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

60] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

61] A good husband makes a good wife

62] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

63] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

64] Grasp all, lose all

65] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

66] No garden without its weeds.

67] There’s a black sheep in every flock

68] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

69] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

70] Repentance is a bitter physic

71] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

72] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

73] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

74] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

75] There’s always room at the top

76] A good paymaster never wants workmen

77] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

78] The company makes the feast

79] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

80] The poor suffer all the wrong

81] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

82] III counsel mars all

83] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

84] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

85] No man is content with his lot

86] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

87] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

88] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

89] Lend never that thing you needed most

90] You can’t win them all

91] Long life has long misery

92] We have all been once in our life

93] Without luck, it is better not to be born

94] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

95] The good is often the enemy of the best

96] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

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

98] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

99] Experience is good if not bought too dear

100] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today