Famous Proverbs

1] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

2] The sun shines upon all alike.

3] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

4] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

5] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

6] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

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

8] Everything in moderation.

9] Ill news comes unsent for.

10] Time flies

11] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

12] God is always on the side of the big battalions

13] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

14] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

15] Prove your friend ere you have need

16] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

17] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

18] All things are possible with god

19] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

20] A jest breaks no bones

21] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

22] Good fame is better than a good face

23] Don’t kick against the pricks

24] It’s dogged that does it

25] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

26] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

27] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

28] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

29] A good beginning makes a good ending.

30] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

31] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

32] The receiver is as bad as the thief

33] Learn to walk before you run

34] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

35] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

36] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

37] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

38] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

39] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

40] Much babbling is not without offence

41] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

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

43] There is many a true word spoken in jest

44] Good luck beats early rising

45] There is many a fair thing full false

46] Men are blind in their own cause

47] One of these days is none of these days

48] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

49] The world is full of fools

50] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

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

52] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

53] Judge not of men and things at first sight

54] Great minds think alike

55] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

56] Everything must have a beginning

57] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

58] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

59] Dogs bark as they are bred.

60] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

61] Let us do evil that good may come

62] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

63] Every beginning is hard

64] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

65] Pat any man and dust will fly

66] Poor folk fare the best

67] Don’t play with edged tools

68] Opportunity makes the thief

69] What must be must be

70] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

71] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

72] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

73] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

74] What cannot gold do?

75] The best wine comes from an old vessel

76] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

77] Dirty water does not wash clean.

78] A mouse may help a lion

79] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

80] Two wrongs do not make a right

81] God arms the harmless

82] Patient men with the day.

83] Little things please little minds

84] New meat begets a new appetite

85] Hope often deludes the foolish man

86] The garment worn determines how one is served

87] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

88] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

89] Nature does nothing in vain

90] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

91] A bully never grows up.

92] New brooms sweep clean

93] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

94] Precepts may lead but examples draw

95] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

96] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

97] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

98] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

99] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

100] It is easier to pull down than to build