Famous Proverbs

1] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

2] The great fish eat up the small

3] Beware of no man more than himself

4] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

5] Few words are best

6] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

7] Care is no cure

8] A watched pot never boils

9] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

10] Money is the root of all evil

11] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

12] The golden age was never the present age

13] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

14] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

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

16] Let us do evil that good may come

17] A traveller may lie with authority

18] Cut your coat according to your cloth

19] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

20] Good luck beats early rising

21] Wash your dirty linen at home

22] The fairest silk is soonest stained

23] Help a lame dog over a stile

24] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

25] He that seeks trouble never misses

26] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

27] Every medal has two sides

28] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

29] Nothing seek, nothing find

30] A soft answer turns away wrath

31] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

32] Weak things united become strong

33] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

34] Strike while the iron is hot

35] All things are possible with god

36] Example is better than precept

37] Ill comes often on the back worse

38] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

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

40] A good wife makes a good husband

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

42] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

43] Stolen goods never thrive

44] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

45] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

46] It is a shame to be shameless

47] Never hit a man when he’s down

48] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

49] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

50] The game is not worth the candle

51] A crust is better than no bread.

52] Friendship should not be all on one side

53] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

54] Cowards die many times before their deaths

55] The absent saint gets no candle

56] Waste makes wants

57] A strong town is not won in an hour

58] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

59] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

60] Better late than never, but better never late

61] Better the foot slip than the tongue

62] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

63] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

64] He who hesitates is lost

65] Tomorrow never comes

66] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

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

68] All cats are grey in the dark

69] Long absent, soon forgotten

70] If you play with fire you get burnt

71] A rich man’s joke is always funny

72] All covet all lose.

73] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

74] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

75] Every why has a wherefore

76] Early sow, early mow

77] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

78] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

79] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

80] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

81] Haste makes waste

82] All for one, and one for all.

83] He who never was sick dies the first fit

84] Art improves Nature

85] Poor folk fare the best

86] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

87] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

88] It costs more to do ill than to do well

89] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

90] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

91] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

92] Hard cases make bad law

93] A little impatience will spoil great plans

94] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

95] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

96] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

97] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

98] You must grin and bear it

99] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

100] No man can serve two masters