Famous Proverbs

1] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

2] Charity begins at home.

3] An old fox is not easily snared

4] He thinks not well that thinks not again

5] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

6] Early sow, early mow

7] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

8] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

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

10] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

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

12] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

13] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

14] Let bygones be bygones

15] Nature is conquered by obeying her

16] Love delights in praise

17] One today is worth two tomorrows

18] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

19] Rip not up old sores

20] What the king wills, that the law wills

21] The hole calls the thief

22] A rich man’s joke is always funny

23] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

24] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

25] The child is father of the man

26] Love is blind

27] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

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

29] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

30] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

31] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

32] The best things carried to excess are wrong

33] All things that great men do are well done

34] Love cannot be compelled

35] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

36] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

37] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

38] Affection blinds reason

39] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

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

41] Kill two birds with one stone

42] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

43] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

44] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

45] Repentance is a bitter physic

46] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

47] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

48] The best things are hard to come by.

49] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

50] Desires are nourished by delays

51] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

52] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

53] Sow thin and mow thin

54] To err is human

55] Like master, like man

56] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

57] A good beginning makes a good ending.

58] Love can find a way

59] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

60] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

61] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

62] Enough is enough

63] Don’t take your harp to the party

64] Men are known by the company they keep.

65] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

66] Good to begin well, better to end well.

67] The last suitor wins the maid

68] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

69] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

70] A crust is better than no bread.

71] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

72] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

73] Patience is the remedy of the world

74] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

75] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

76] You may know by a handful the whole sack

77] You are never too old to learn

78] Better learn late than never

79] There is nothing that costs less than civility

80] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

81] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

82] Fear of death is worse than death itself

83] The sign brings customers

84] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

85] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

86] Fair play’s a jewel

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

88] Charity begins at home.

89] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

90] It is too late to call back yesterday

91] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

92] First impressions are the most lasting

93] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

94] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

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

96] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

97] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

98] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

99] The early man ever borrows from the late man

100] Take away fuel, take away flame