Famous Proverbs

1] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

2] All griefs with bread are less

3] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

4] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

5] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

6] God’s help is better than the early rising

7] He who never was sick dies the first fit

8] First impressions are most lasting

9] One foot is better than two crutches

10] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

11] Things are seldom what they seem.

12] He knows the water best who has waded through it

13] All meat pleases not all mouths

14] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

15] Stolen goods never thrive

16] The first blow is half the battle

17] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

18] Nothing crave, nothing have

19] Things past cannot be recalled

20] Silence is golden

21] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

22] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

23] All truths are not to be told

24] Variety is charming

25] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

26] Time lost cannot be recalled

27] Pride goes before a fall

28] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

29] No tie can oblige the perfidious

30] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

31] Many eyes upon the king

32] Poverty is the mother of crime

33] Judge not of men and things at first sight

34] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

35] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

36] Of three main roads, take the middle one

37] Men are known by the company they keep.

38] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

39] Ill news comes unsent for.

40] Crowns have cares

41] Life means strife

42] A bad workman always blames his tools

43] Where there are reeds, there is water

44] Silence never makes mistakes

45] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

46] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

47] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

48] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

49] Take heed is a fair thing

50] Don’t put the cart before the horse

51] All glory comes from daring to begin

52] There is safety in numbers

53] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

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

55] Divide and rule

56] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

57] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

58] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

59] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

60] A woman’s work is never done

61] The first step is the hardest

62] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

63] After a storm comes a calm

64] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

65] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

66] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

67] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

68] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

69] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

70] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

71] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

72] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

73] Hard words break no bones

74] Well begun is half done.

75] Black will take no other hue

76] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

77] No man fears what he has seen grow

78] All things for not all persons

79] Riches along make no men happy

80] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

81] Adam’s ale is the best brew

82] The tide must be taken when it comes

83] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

84] Necessity knows no law

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

86] Poor folk fare the best

87] Better no doctor at all than three.

88] Double charge will rive a cannon

89] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

90] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

91] Words are but wind

92] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

93] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

94] III counsel mars all

95] It is ill striving against the stream

96] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

97] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

98] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

99] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

100] Lend your money and lose a friend