Famous Proverbs

1] Even silence may be eloquent

2] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

3] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

4] Many a true word is spoken in jest

5] None can guess the jewel by the casket

6] He that has plenty of goods will have more

7] Pleasing ware is half sold

8] In fair weather prepare for foul

9] Waste not, want not

10] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

11] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

12] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

13] So many men, so many opinions

14] An old man is a bed full of bones

15] Trust not the many-minded populace

16] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

17] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

18] All good things must come to an end

19] All covet all lose.

20] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

21] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

22] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

23] At a good bargain thinks twice

24] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

25] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

26] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

27] Cleanliness is next to godliness

28] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

29] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

30] Travel broadens the mind

31] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

32] Goodness is better than beauty

33] Well done is better than well said

34] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

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

36] Cheats never prosper

37] It takes two to make a quarrel

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

39] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

40] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

41] The slowest barker is the surest biter

42] Travel broadens the mind

43] A penny saved is a penny gained

44] Good fame is better than a good face

45] Prospect is often better than possession

46] He who hesitates is lost

47] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

48] Weeds need no sowing

49] Fair play’s a jewel

50] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

51] Honest is the best policy

52] Intimacy lessens fame

53] Morning dreams come true

54] Even water has its ebb and flow

55] The devil lurks behind the cross

56] Shrouds have no pockets

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

58] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

59] Covetousness brings nothing home

60] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

61] A good name is a rich heritage

62] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

63] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

64] Bear and forbear

65] Lavishness is not generosity

66] What is deferred is not abandoned

67] Honesty is the best policy

68] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

69] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

70] Go while the going is good

71] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

72] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

73] Pursuits become habits

74] When wine sinks, words swim

75] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

76] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

77] Our own opinion is never wrong

78] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

79] The grace of God enough

80] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

81] If you play with fire you get burnt

82] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

83] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

84] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

85] The child is father of the man

86] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

87] Early sow, early mow

88] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

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

90] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

91] Little by little and bit by bit.

92] Live not to eat, but eat to live

93] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

94] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

95] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

96] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

97] Of a new prince, new bondage

98] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

99] If one will not, another will

100] Life begins only in success