Famous Proverbs

1] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

2] Remember, you are but a man

3] Health is great riches

4] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

5] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

6] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

7] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

8] Praise no man till he is dead.

9] Beggars must not be choosers

10] An old fox is not easily snared

11] It is too late to look up after you have collided

12] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

13] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

14] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

15] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

16] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

17] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

18] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

19] Cleanliness is next to godliness

20] Everything is good in its season

21] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

22] Discretion is the better part of valour

23] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

24] A wise man hears one word and understands two

25] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

26] Cowards die many times before their deaths

27] Revenge never repairs an injury

28] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

29] Care brings grey hair.

30] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

31] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

32] Nothing crave, nothing have

33] Often and little eating makes a man fat

34] Sooner begun, sooner done

35] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

36] No hair so small but has his shadow

37] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

38] To teach is to learn twice over

39] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

40] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

41] Money is the root of all evil

42] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

43] Little things are great to little men

44] Care is no cure

45] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

46] See which way the cat jumps

47] Great gain makes easy work

48] A door must be either shut or open

49] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

50] The more laws, the more offenders

51] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

52] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

53] Everything comes to him who waits

54] He who never was sick dies the first fit

55] He that lives ill, fear follows him

56] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

57] Where there are reeds, there is water

58] The pen is the tongue of the hand

59] The best is often the enemy of the good

60] Better an open enemy than a false friend

61] Who greases his way travels easily

62] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

63] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

64] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

65] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

66] A good example is the best sermon

67] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

68] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

69] A mouse may help a lion

70] The best fish swim near the bottom

71] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

72] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

73] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

74] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

75] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

76] Life is not all beer and skittles

77] Think on the end before you begin

78] Better sit still than rise and fall

79] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

80] Money is the only monarch

81] It is best to be on the safe side

82] Great trees keep down the little ones

83] He thinks not well that thinks not again

84] None but the brave deserves the fair

85] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

86] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

87] Better eye sore than al blind

88] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

89] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

90] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

91] Better an apple given than eaten

92] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

93] Walls have ears

94] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

95] All that glitters is not gold

96] Grief pent up will break the heart

97] You cannot make a crab walk straight

98] In everything consider the end

99] Standing pools gather fifth

100] Haste makes waste