Famous Proverbs

1] There’s no great loss without some gain

2] Men are known by the company they keep.

3] A good dog deserves a good bone

4] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

5] Gifts blind the eyes.

6] You cannot serve God and Mammon

7] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

8] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

9] Misfortune makes foes of friends

10] An open door may tempt a saint

11] Fish and guests smell in three days

12] The best of men are but men at best.

13] It is too late to call back yesterday

14] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

15] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

16] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

17] Friendship should not be all on one side

18] Goodness is better than beauty

19] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

20] Money is the only monarch

21] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

22] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

23] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

24] To teach is to learn twice over

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

26] An old ox makes a straight furrow

27] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

28] He that has no money needs no purse

29] The weakest goes to the wall

30] Where there is whispering there is lying

31] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

32] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

33] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

34] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

35] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

36] Do it now

37] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

38] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

39] Great hopes make great men

40] Bread is the staff of life.

41] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

42] Long looked for, comes at last

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

44] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

45] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

46] There is nothing that costs less than civility

47] Old foxes want no tutors

48] Pleasing ware is half sold

49] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

50] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

51] Do as you would be done by

52] Spread the table, and contention will cease

53] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

54] A constant guest is never welcome

55] Step by step the ladder is ascended

56] A cat has nine lives

57] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

58] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

59] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

60] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

61] A good conscience is a soft pillow

62] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

63] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

64] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

65] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

66] Open confession is good for the soul

67] Of three main roads, take the middle one

68] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

69] No tie can oblige the perfidious

70] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

71] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

72] No land without stones, or meat without bones

73] Dreams are lies

74] He travels the fastest who travels alone

75] A hungry man is angry man

76] What is worse than ill luck?

77] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

78] Precepts may lead but examples draw

79] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

80] None can guess the jewel by the casket

81] He that will thrive must rise at five

82] Dead dogs bark not

83] Barking dogs seldom bite

84] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

85] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

86] Life means strife

87] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

88] While there is life, there is hope

89] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

90] A man’s mother is his other God

91] Better children weep than old men

92] Every flow must have its ebb

93] Better to wear out than rust out

94] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

95] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

96] Strength grows stronger by being tried

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

98] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

99] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

100] The devil lurks behind the cross