Famous Proverbs

1] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

2] The garment worn determines how one is served

3] He who leaps high must take a long run

4] Sickness shows us what we are

5] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

6] He that can stay. Obtains

7] What will not money do?

8] No man is indispensable

9] The rich knows not who is his friend

10] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

11] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

12] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

13] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

14] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

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

16] The child is father of the man

17] He who owes is in all the wrong

18] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

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

20] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

21] The world is full of fools

22] Health and money go far

23] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

24] All’s fair in love and war

25] A living dog is better than a dead lion

26] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

27] Live and let live

28] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

29] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

30] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

31] Diamond cuts diamond

32] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

33] Learn to walk before you run

34] One foot is better than two crutches

35] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

36] Full of courtesy, full of craft

37] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

38] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

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

40] You can’t tell a book by its cover

41] Be careful to whom you give

42] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

43] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

44] A cat may look at a king

45] Enough is as good as a feast

46] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

47] The best things come in small packages

48] God sends cold after Clothes

49] Ready money is a ready remedy

50] A good wife makes a good husband

51] A piece of churchyard fits every body

52] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

53] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

54] By falling we learn to go safely

55] There is no smoke without fire

56] No hair so small but has his shadow

57] Needs must when the devil drives

58] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

59] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

60] Enough is enough

61] Abundance, like want, ruins many

62] No misfortune will go on forever

63] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

64] Take the tone of the company you are in

65] He who sows, trusts in God

66] A change is as good as rest

67] One barber shaves another gratis

68] Dreams are lies

69] Don’t cry before you are hurt

70] The labourer is worthy of his hire

71] Extremes are dangerous

72] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

73] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

74] Youth and age will never agree

75] A good face is a letter of recommendation

76] He that sows virtue reaps fame

77] A gift much expected is paid, not given

78] Every man must carry his own cross

79] Blue are the far away hills

80] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

81] Every little helps

82] No one betrays himself by silence

83] It is too late to look up after you have collided

84] Christmas comes but once a year

85] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

86] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

87] Laws were made to be broke

88] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

89] Even a worm will turn

90] Life is short and time is swift

91] There are spots even in the sun

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

93] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

94] III counsel mars all

95] Necessity knows no law

96] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

97] Every cloud has a silver lining

98] Think of ease, but work on.

99] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

100] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell