Famous Proverbs

1] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

2] Slow but sure wins the race

3] There is safety in numbers

4] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

5] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

6] A good name is better than a golden girdle

7] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

8] Every man is his own worst enemy

9] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

10] Two heads are better than one

11] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

12] Lend never that thing you needed most

13] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

14] Words are but wind

15] Beggars must not be choosers

16] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

17] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

18] Creditors have better memories than debtors

19] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

21] A good conscience is a sure card

22] Envy never enriched any man.

23] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

24] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

25] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

26] Every cloud has a silver lining

27] Don’t cry for the moon

28] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

29] Time flees without a delay

30] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

31] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

32] Divine grace was never slow

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

34] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

35] Words are but wind

36] Go not to hell for company

37] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

38] Wash your dirty linen at home

39] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

40] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

41] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

42] All heiresses are beautiful.

43] Love will find a way

44] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

45] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

46] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

47] Hope often deludes the foolish man

48] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

49] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

50] All’s fish that comes to the net

51] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

52] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

53] Lose a leg rather than a life

54] Fair exchange is no robbery

55] No news is good news

56] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

57] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

58] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

59] A good wife makes a good husband

60] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

61] Truth is mighty and will prevail

62] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

63] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

64] A cat has nine lives

65] He that obey cannot command

66] Everything must have a beginning

67] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

68] Hear twice before you speak once

69] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

70] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

71] Never too late to learn

72] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

73] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

74] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

75] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

76] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

77] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

78] A scalded cat fears hot water.

79] Wake not a sleeping lion

80] Accidents will happen

81] Standing pools gather fifth

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

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

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

85] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

86] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

87] The love of money is the root of all evil

88] Company in misery makes it light

89] He that has a wife, has strife

90] A good servant must have good wages

91] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

92] A house divided against itself cannot stand

93] New things are fair

94] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

95] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

96] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

97] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

98] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

99] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

100] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure