Famous Proverbs

1] There is no rose without a thorn

2] Fish begins to stink at the head

3] Alms never make poor

4] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

5] Jack is as good as his master

6] Great gain makes easy work

7] Lovers are madmen

8] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

9] New things are fair

10] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

11] III luck is good for something

12] They brag most who can do least

13] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

14] A hedge between keeps friendship green

15] Never too late to repent

16] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

17] Nature hates all sudden changes

18] Facts are stubborn things

19] One kindness is the price of another

20] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

21] Much would have more

22] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

23] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

24] All is fair in love and war

25] God sends cold after Clothes

26] All’s fish that comes to the net

27] Dirty linen should be washed at home

28] One man’s loss is another’s gain

29] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

30] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

31] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

32] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

33] He who serves is not free

34] Every dog has his day

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

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

37] To err is human; to forgive, divine

38] Nature is content with little.

39] He that desires but little has no deed of much

40] It is good fishing in troubled waters

41] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

42] He who envies admits his inferiority

43] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

44] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

45] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

46] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

47] Parents are patterns

48] The hand that gives, gathers

49] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

50] What will not money do?

51] Bear with evil and expect good

52] The sun shines upon all alike.

53] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

54] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

55] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

56] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

57] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

58] Health is great riches

59] The more cost, the more honour

60] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

61] The first step is the only difficulty

62] So many men, so many opinions

63] Repentance is a bitter physic

64] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

65] Sow thin and mow thin

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

67] He that has no money needs no purse

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

69] Do as say, not as I do

70] No man fears what he has seen grow

71] Old habits die hard

72] A good face is a letter of recommendation

73] He who considers too much will perform little.

74] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

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

76] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

77] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

78] Crowns have cares

79] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

80] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

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

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

83] Friends are thieves of time

84] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

85] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

86] Charity begins at home.

87] It is well to live that one may learn

88] Books and friends should be few but good

89] The age of miracles is past

90] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

91] Ale will make a cat speak

92] More have repented speech than silence

93] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

94] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

95] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

96] A good beginning is half the battle.

97] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

98] Words and feathers the wind carries away

99] Nature is the true law

100] Wisdom is better than strength