Famous Proverbs

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

2] Wrong has no warrant

3] Patience surpasses learning

4] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

5] Old cattle breed not

6] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

7] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

8] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

9] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

10] Do as the friar says, not as he does

11] Brevity is the soul of wit

12] Better be alone than in bad company

13] Even reckoning makes long friends

14] New brooms sweep clean

15] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

16] Anything will fit a naked man.

17] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

18] A crowd is not company

19] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

20] Good counsel never comes amiss

21] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

22] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

23] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

24] Tempt not a desperate man

25] Despair gives courage to a coward

26] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

27] Let bygones be bygones

28] He that repairs not a part, builds all

29] Grin and bear it

30] Anything will fit a naked man.

31] While there is life, there is hope

32] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

33] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

34] Little and often fills the purse

35] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

36] Never do evil that good may come of it

37] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

38] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

39] Union (or Unity) is strength

40] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

41] The best things are hard to come by.

42] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

43] Union is strength.

44] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

45] A friend in need is a friend indeed

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

47] No road is long with good company

48] Anger without power is folly

49] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

50] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

51] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

52] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

53] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

54] The mean is the best

55] Confess and be hanged

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

57] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

58] The highest branch is not the safest roost

59] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

60] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

61] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

62] Better say noting than no to the purpose

63] Love is lawless.

64] Goodness is better than beauty

65] Success has many friends

66] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

67] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

68] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

69] Some are wise and some are otherwise

70] Waste not, want not

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

72] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

73] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

74] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

75] Long life has long misery

76] There is no accounting for tastes

77] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

78] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

79] A bad workman always blames his tools

80] Love delights in praise

81] Hasty work, double work,

82] Let not your tongue run at rover

83] First catch your hare

84] Empty vessels make the most sound

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

86] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

87] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

88] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

89] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

90] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

91] No remedy but patience

92] The exception proves the rule

93] The great fish eat up the small

94] Procrastination is the thief of time

95] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

96] He who leaps high must take a long run

97] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

98] A gift much expected is paid, not given

99] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

100] They that dance must pay the fiddler