Famous Proverbs

1] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

2] Better late than never

3] A good beginning makes a good ending.

4] Let us do evil that good may come

5] One potter envies another

6] A fool always rushes to the fore.

7] A man’s wealth is his enemy

8] If today will not, tomorrow may

9] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

10] Charity excuseth not cheating.

11] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

12] Friendship should not be all on one side

13] A woman’s work is never done

14] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

15] A stitch in time saves nine

16] It is best to be on the safe side

17] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

18] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

19] One sword keeps another in the sheath

20] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

21] One potter envies another

22] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

23] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

24] Take away fuel, take away flame

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

26] Fair without, false within

27] Better are small fish than an empty dish

28] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

29] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

30] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

31] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

32] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

33] Hope is the poor man’s bread

34] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

35] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

36] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

37] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

38] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

39] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

40] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

41] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

42] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

43] A jack of all traders is master of none

44] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

45] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

46] The race is got by running

47] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

48] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

49] Anger without power is folly

50] It is never too late to mend

51] The early man ever borrows from the late man

52] Nothing seek, nothing find

53] Too long burden makes weary bones

54] One man sows and another reaps

55] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

56] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

57] Men make houses, women make homes

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

59] Names are debts

60] Better are small fish than an empty dish

61] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

62] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

63] We have all been once in our life

64] Great gain makes easy work

65] Great oaks from little acorns grow

66] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

67] Debt is an evil conscience

68] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

69] Wife and Children are bills of charges

70] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

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

72] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

73] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

74] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

75] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

76] Look at the bright side

77] Patience is a plaster for all sores

78] An old ox makes a straight furrow

79] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

80] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

81] Come with the wind, got with the water

82] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

83] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

84] A word to the wise is enough

85] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

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

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

88] There’s always room at the top

89] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

90] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

91] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

92] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

93] He that repairs not a part, builds all

94] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

95] Love me, love my dog

96] Put not the bucket too often in the well

97] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

98] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

99] Safety lies in the middle course

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