Famous Proverbs

1] The ant had wings to her hurt

2] Ready money is ready medicine

3] Poverty parts friendship

4] Much would have more

5] He that wants health wants all

6] Better sit still than rise and fall

7] The poor suffer all the wrong

8] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

9] To teach is to learn twice over

10] Time lost cannot be recalled

11] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

12] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

13] Will is no skill

14] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

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

16] Money talks

17] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

18] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

19] What’s in a name?

20] One reason is as good as fifty

21] Children learn to creep ere they can go

22] A short cut is often a wrong cut

23] There’s always room at the top

24] Love is blind

25] Desire beautifies what is ugly

26] More haste, less speed

27] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

28] Human blood is all of a colour

29] A great city, a great solitude

30] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

31] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

32] There is no tree but bears some fruit

33] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

34] Cleanliness is next to godliness

35] All our pomp the earth covers

36] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

37] New meat begets a new appetite

38] Example is the greatest of all seducers

39] Silence is golden

40] There is nothing new under the sun

41] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

42] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

43] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

44] Every little helps

45] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

46] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

47] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

48] There is a black sheep in every flock

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

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

51] It is all in the day’s work

52] Numbers overcome the brave

53] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

54] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

55] Hope is grief’s best music

56] Practice makes perfect

57] The best things carried to excess are wrong

58] Like master, like man

59] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

60] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

61] Bear and forbear

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

63] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

64] Beauty draws more than oxen

65] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

66] An angry man is not fit to pray

67] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

68] Half a word is enough for a wise man

69] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

70] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

71] Friends are thieves of time

72] There is no place like home

73] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

74] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

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

76] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

77] The labourer is worthy of his hire

78] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

79] A man’s wealth is his enemy

80] The best things in life are free

81] The pot calls the kettle black

82] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

83] That which is easily done is soon believed

84] There is nothing permanent except change

85] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

86] Old habits die hard

87] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

88] As you bake, so shall you eat.

89] Take time by the forelock

90] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

91] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

92] The more you get, the more you want

93] All’s fair in love and war

94] Every oak has been an acorn

95] Error cannot be defended but by error

96] Ignorance is the peace of life

97] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

98] Intimacy lessens fame

99] Better bend than break

100] Beware of him who makes thee presents