Famous Proverbs

1] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

2] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

3] A word to the wise is enough

4] Art improves Nature

5] Love your friend with his fault

6] It is best to be on the safe side

7] Acorns were good till bread was found

8] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

9] Of a new prince, new bondage

10] Life is not all beer and skittles

11] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

12] The ass that brays most eats

13] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

14] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

15] Repentance is a bitter physic

16] Trust not the many-minded populace

17] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

18] Poor folk fare the best

19] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

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

21] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

22] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

23] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

24] Dreams go by contraries

25] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

26] Actions speak louder than words

27] The best go first

28] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

29] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

30] He may find fault that cannot mend

31] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

32] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

33] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

34] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

35] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

36] Words and feathers the wind carries away

37] Small is the seed of every greatness

38] How forceful are right words

39] Every man has his faults

40] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

41] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

42] One can’t help many, but many can help one

43] Better are small fish than an empty dish

44] Poverty is not a crime

45] Old habits die hard

46] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

47] Patience is the remedy of the world

48] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

49] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

50] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

51] Health is great riches

52] Corn him well and he will work better

53] Ambition loses many a man

54] In everything consider the end

55] You can’t win them all

56] Many drops make a shower

57] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

58] Laws were made to be broke

59] You never know your luck

60] The end justifies the means

61] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

62] Where there is peace, there is blessing

63] Fortune favours fools

64] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

65] Virtue carries a lean purse

66] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

67] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

68] Everything comes to him who waits

69] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

70] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

71] All things that great men do are well done

72] Great talkers are never great doers

73] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

74] Children speak only words they have heard.

75] Fortune is blind

76] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

77] A bad padlock invites a picklock

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

79] There is nothing like being on the safe side

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

81] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

82] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

83] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

84] Gluttony kills more than the sword

85] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

86] Wine is the best broom for trouble

87] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

88] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

89] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

90] Waste is not grandeur

91] He that will thrive must rise at five

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

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

94] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

95] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

96] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

97] Riches along make no men happy

98] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

99] Misfortune does not always come to injure

100] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.