Famous Proverbs

1] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

2] Health is better than wealth

3] What must be must be

4] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

5] Live and Learn

6] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

7] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

8] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

9] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

10] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

11] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

12] He that obey cannot command

13] Wrong has no warrant

14] We shall lie all alike in our graves

15] III luck is good for something

16] The cobbler should stick to his last

17] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

18] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

19] Better the foot slip than the tongue

20] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

21] Much babbling is not without offence

22] Wise men propose, and fools determine

23] The best of men are but men at best.

24] Many a true word is spoken in jest

25] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

26] More haste, less speed

27] We are all Adam’s children

28] True gold is not transformed by fire

29] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

30] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

31] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

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

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

34] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

35] Home is where the heart is

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

37] Ambition makes people diligent

38] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

39] Learn to walk before you run

40] They also serve who only stand and wait

41] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

42] Flesh is frail

43] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

44] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

45] Take heed is a fair thing

46] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

47] Better no doctor at all than three.

48] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

49] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

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

51] Keep some till further more come

52] No honest man ever repented his honesty

53] The mob tramples on the coward

54] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

55] The weakest goes to the wall

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

57] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

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

59] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

60] It is a great victory that comes without blood

61] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

62] One may change the place but not the mind.

63] He that wants health wants all

64] There is a great difference between words and deeds

65] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

66] The longest journey starts with a single step

67] Too much money makes one mad

68] Better eye sore than al blind

69] No flying without wings.

70] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

71] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

72] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

73] Set a thief to catch a thief

74] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

75] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

76] Put out your tubs when it is raining

77] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

78] First catch your hare

79] Death keeps no calendar

80] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

81] Business is business

82] What’s done is done

83] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

84] Heaven helps those who help themselves

85] Better an apple given than eaten

86] Rats know the ways of rats

87] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

88] He is an ill husband who is not missed

89] There’s a black sheep in every flock

90] Do unto others as they should do unto you

91] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

92] Beware of no man more than himself

93] There is no time like the present

94] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

95] The greatest step is that out of doors

96] Give a loan and buy quarrel

97] Cut your coat according to your cloth

98] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

99] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

100] Many irons in the fire, some must cool