Famous Proverbs

1] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

2] A word is enough to the wise

3] He that is down need fear no fall

4] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

5] Great hopes make great men

6] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

7] There is nothing permanent except change

8] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

9] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

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

11] Now is now, and then was then

12] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

13] Goodness is better than beauty

14] The receiver is as bad as the thief

15] Every may be has a may not be

16] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

17] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

18] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

19] No honest man ever repented his honesty

20] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

21] A good wife makes a good husband

22] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

23] Wedlock is padlock

24] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

25] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

26] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

27] The pen is the tongue of the hand

28] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

29] Every Jack must have his Jill

30] Fire is a good servant a bad master

31] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

32] Where there’s a will there’s a way

33] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

34] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

35] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

36] Virtue is the only true nobility

37] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

38] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

39] All are not saints that go to church

40] If one will not, another will

41] Plain dealing is a jewel

42] He knows most who speaks least

43] Variety is charming

44] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

45] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

46] Bad luck often brings good luck

47] None so deaf as those that will not hear

48] There is no redemption from hell

49] Tempt not a desperate man

50] Six feet of earth make all men equal

51] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

52] A good wife is a good prize

53] Hope is grief’s best music

54] You win some, you lose some

55] Don’t kick against the pricks

56] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

57] Know thyself

58] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

59] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

60] Grin and bear it

61] Take things as they come

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

63] There are more ways to the wood than one.

64] There are more men threatened than stricken

65] Cut your coat according to your cloth

66] No flying without wings.

67] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

68] A true man and a thief think not the same

69] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

70] There is no time like the present

71] While there is life, there is hope

72] There’s a black sheep in every flock

73] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

74] Good fame is better than a good face

75] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

76] There is many a true word spoken in jest

77] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

78] Better the last smile than the first laugh

79] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

80] The day obliterates the promise of the might

81] Possibilities are infinite

82] The word is far him who has patience

83] Don’t tell tales out of school

84] Life begins only in success

85] Acorns were good till bread was found

86] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

87] You cannot have your cake and eat it

88] Rats know the ways of rats

89] A friend in need is a friend indeed

90] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

91] The exception proves the rule

92] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

93] Good counsel never comes amiss

94] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

95] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

96] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

97] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

98] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

99] He that is born a fool is never cured

100] One today is worth two tomorrows