Famous Proverbs

1] The owl thinks her own young fairest

2] Gluttony kills more than the sword

3] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

4] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

5] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

6] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

7] Will is no skill

8] Corn him well and he will work better

9] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

10] Patience is a plaster for all sores

11] They also serve who only stand and wait

12] A short cut is often a wrong cut

13] Words and feathers the wind carries away

14] Do it now

15] There is many a fair thing full false

16] Take the tone of the company you are in

17] Much learning makes men mad

18] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

19] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

20] Hunger is the best sauce

21] Experience must be bought

22] A parrot will only say what it is taught

23] Good fences make good neighbours

24] Poor men’s words have little weight

25] Pursuits become habits

26] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

27] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

28] Call no man happy till he is dead

29] A goose drinks as much as gander

30] A mouse may help a lion

31] A good dog deserves a good bone

32] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

33] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

34] Fools live poor to die rich

35] The longest journey starts with a single step

36] Things are only worth one makes them worth

37] Abundance, like want, ruins many

38] The end crowns the work.

39] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

40] Riches along make no men happy

41] Change of pasture makes fat calves

42] Health is better than wealth

43] Whatever man has done, man can do

44] Weak things united become strong

45] There is nothing like being on the safe side

46] Learn to walk before you run

47] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

48] First impressions are most lasting

49] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

50] A gift much expected is paid, not given

51] Fire is a good servant a bad master

52] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

53] Have two strings to your bow

54] Once bitten, twice shy.

55] There is safety in numbers

56] Every cloud has a silver lining

57] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

58] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

59] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

60] Better be a fool than a knave

61] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

62] Money has no smell

63] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

64] Idleness is the root of all evil

65] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

66] Better be born lucky than wise.

67] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

68] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

69] Money can influence even the spirits

70] Don’t try to run before you walk

71] The deed comes back upon the doer.

72] Leave well alone

73] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

74] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

75] Other times, other manners

76] A man may learn wit every day.

77] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

78] You can’t win them all

79] All doors open to courtesy

80] Hunger is sharper than the sword

81] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

82] Faint heart never won fair lady

83] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

84] Who greases his way travels easily

85] Young saint, old devil.

86] The longest way round is the shortest way home

87] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

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

89] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

90] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

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

92] You cannot make a crab walk straight

93] Every law has a loophole

94] The more laws, the more offenders

95] The tongue talks at the heads cost

96] Love cannot be compelled

97] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

98] There is a black sheep in every flock

99] Necessity is the mother of invention

100] By falling we learn to go safely