Famous Proverbs

1] All cats are grey in the dark

2] Dumb men get no lands

3] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

4] Use makes mastery

5] There is no place like home

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

7] Quickly come, quickly go

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

9] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

10] The labour we delight in physics pain

11] Everything must have a beginning

12] Numbers overcome the brave

13] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

14] Cleanliness is next to godliness

15] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

16] Trusting often makes fidelity

17] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

18] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

19] A man of courage never wants weapons

20] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

21] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

22] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

23] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

24] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

25] Don’t meet trouble half-way

26] Every oak has been an acorn

27] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

28] A little impatience will spoil great plans

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

30] A good lather is half the shave

31] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

32] First creep, then walk

33] Go not to hell for company

34] A good name is better than riches

35] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

36] Good counsel never comes amiss

37] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

38] Children should be seen and not heard

39] Things past cannot be recalled

40] When the word is out it belongs to another

41] Fingers were made before forks

42] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

43] He is rich that has few wants

44] We live laws, not by examples

45] What is deferred is not abandoned

46] A man may bear till his back breaks

47] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

48] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

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

50] There is many a fair thing full false

51] Early sow, early mow

52] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

53] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

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

55] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

56] Handsome is as handsome does

57] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

58] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

59] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

60] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

61] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

62] Spare the rod and spoil the child

63] Every man must carry his own cross

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

65] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

66] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

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

68] The ant had wings to her hurt

69] Gold may be bought too dear

70] Health and wealth create beauty

71] An Englishman’s home is his castle

72] In the land of hope there is never any winter

73] Truth is mighty and will prevail

74] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

75] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

76] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

77] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

78] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

79] A mouse may help a lion

80] Extremes are dangerous

81] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

82] He who excuses himself accuses himself

83] The labourer is worthy of his hire

84] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

85] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

86] No good building without a good foundation.

87] None so blind as those who will not see

88] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

89] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

90] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

91] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

92] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

93] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

94] What’s done is done

95] Threatened folk live long

96] Work expands so as to fill the time available

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

98] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

99] A learned man has always riches in himself

100] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart