Famous Proverbs

1] All heiresses are beautiful.

2] You never know your luck

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

4] Advice when most needed is least heeded

5] Lookers-on see more than players

6] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

7] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

8] Muck and money go together

9] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

10] Manners and money make a gentleman

11] Like mistress, like maid

12] Money is power

13] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

14] Kill two birds with one stone

15] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

16] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

17] True gold is not transformed by fire

18] Pride goes before a fall

19] Better to be safe than sorry.

20] Needs must when the evil drives

21] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

22] Patience is the remedy of the world

23] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

24] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

25] Better an apple given than eaten

26] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

27] A little help is worth a deal of pity

28] To err is human

29] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

30] Desires are nourished by delays

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

32] In peace, prepare for war

33] Bear and forbear

34] He who excuses himself accuses himself

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

36] A man may bear till his back breaks

37] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

38] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

39] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

40] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

41] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

42] The greatest talkers are the least doers

43] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

44] Birds of a feather flock together

45] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

46] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

47] A good husband makes a good wife

48] A stitch in time saves nine

49] He conquers who endures

50] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

51] There is no tree but bears some fruit

52] There is nothing that costs less than civility

53] Good clothes open all doors

54] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

55] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

56] There is nothing that costs less than civility

57] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

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

59] A beggar can never be bankrupt

60] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

61] One man sows and another reaps

62] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

63] He that does most at once, does least

64] He is wise who looks ahead

65] Penny and penny laid up will be many

66] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

67] Slow help is no help

68] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

69] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

70] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

71] Where there is whispering there is lying

72] The end crowns the work.

73] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

74] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

75] Fear of death is worse than death itself

76] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

77] Fire is a good servant a bad master

78] He is rich that has few wants

79] The early bird catches the worm

80] He that praises himself, spatters himself

81] Wake not a sleeping lion

82] Like master, like man

83] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

84] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

85] Better no doctor at all than three.

86] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

87] Evil to him who evil thinks.

88] Children learn to creep ere they can go

89] Give and take is fair play

90] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

91] His bark is worse than his bite

92] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

93] Every oak has been an acorn

94] Care brings grey hair.

95] Give the devil his due

96] Poverty is not a crime

97] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

98] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

99] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

100] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.