Famous Proverbs

1] Let us do evil that good may come

2] Judge not the tree by its bark

3] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

4] Misery loves company.

5] He travels the fastest who travels alone

6] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

7] Work expands so as to fill the time available

8] Even silence may be eloquent

9] Better beg than steal.

10] In wine there is truth

11] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

12] Penny wise, pound foolish

13] Common fame is a liar

14] No man limps because another is hurt

15] He mediates revenge who least complains.

16] What’s done cannot be undone

17] Like mistress, like maid

18] No choice amongst stinking fish

19] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

20] All’s well that ends well

21] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

22] A good heart conquers ill fortune

23] You cannot serve God and Mammon

24] One swallow does not make a summer

25] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

26] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

27] In the end, things will mend

28] A jack of all traders is master of none

29] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

30] Virtue joints man to god

31] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

32] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

33] Content is more than a kingdom

34] Ambition loses many a man

35] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

36] Money makes the man

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

38] It is never too late to mend

39] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

40] Let us do evil that good may come

41] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

42] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

43] One man sows and another reaps

44] God makes the back for the burden

45] One master in a house is enough

46] Love can find a way

47] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

48] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

49] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

50] Look before you leap

51] There is no rose without a thorn

52] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

53] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

54] Don’t cry before you are hurt

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

56] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

57] Cheap is dear in the long run.

58] All cats are grey in the dark

59] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

60] Lose a leg rather than a life

61] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

62] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

63] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

64] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

65] Custom reconciles us to everything

66] Friends agree best at a distance

67] Pitchers have ears

68] Extremes meet

69] Human blood is all of a colour

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

71] Health and money go far

72] It is good to follow the old fox

73] There is a great difference between words and deeds

74] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

75] Every little helps

76] Take the tone of the company you are in

77] The cobbler should stick to his last

78] Nature is conquered by obeying her

79] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

80] Union (or Unity) is strength

81] Don’t cry before you are hurt

82] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

83] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

84] The greatest talkers are the least doers

85] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

86] Once bitten, twice shy.

87] Often and little eating makes a man fat

88] Don’t ride the high horse

89] Strike while the iron is hot

90] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

91] Do as you would be done by

92] A friend in need is a friend indeed

93] Wedlock is padlock

94] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

95] Thrift is a great revenue

96] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

97] Possibilities are infinite

98] Tigers and deer do not over.

99] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

100] The sun shines upon all alike.