Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot unscramble eggs

2] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

3] A good paymaster needs no surety

4] Precepts may lead but examples draw

5] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

6] There is nothing new under the sun

7] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

8] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

9] Who greases his way travels easily

10] Prospect is often better than possession

11] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

12] The poor suffer all the wrong

13] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

14] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

15] A short cut is often a wrong cut

16] Honesty is ill to thrive by

17] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

18] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

19] The king can do no wrong

20] Necessity is mother of invention

21] Well begun is half done.

22] Weeds need no sowing

23] Rich folk have many friends

24] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

25] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

26] Exchange is no robbery

27] A willful man will have his way

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

29] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

30] The sign brings customers

31] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

32] He laughs best who laughs last

33] What’s in a name?

34] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

35] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

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

37] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

38] One lie makes many

39] Forgive and forget

40] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

41] Fear of death is worse than death itself

42] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

43] Hunger is the best sauce

44] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

45] A good beginning makes a good ending.

46] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

47] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

48] Idle folks have the least leisure

49] The poor suffer all the wrong

50] A fool may give a wise man counsel

51] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

52] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

53] Necessity breaks iron

54] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

55] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

56] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

57] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

58] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

59] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

60] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

61] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

62] Custom reconciles us to everything

63] Truth conquers all things

64] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

65] It’s a long lane that has no turning

66] One is what one eats

67] The highest tree has the greatest fall

68] Haste makes waste

69] Years know more than books

70] Petty laws breed great crimes

71] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

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

73] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

74] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

75] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

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

77] Home is home though it be never so homely

78] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

79] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

80] Sorrow will pay no debt

81] Share and share alike

82] Precepts may lead but examples draw

83] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

84] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

85] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

86] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

87] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

88] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

89] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

90] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

91] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

92] When bees area old, they yield n honey

93] Distance lends enchantment to the view

94] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

95] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

96] Gold will not buy everything

97] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

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

99] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

100] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue