Famous Proverbs

1] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

2] No convenience without its inconvenience

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

4] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

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

6] Learn to walk before you run

7] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

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

9] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

10] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

11] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

12] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

13] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

14] Wrong never comes right

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

16] A good conscience is a sure card

17] Paddle your own canoe

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

19] Best is cheapest

20] A good conscience is a soft pillow

21] Better an apple given than eaten

22] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

24] An egg thief will become a camel thief

25] The envious man shall never want woe

26] Beauty fades like a flower.

27] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

28] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

29] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

30] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

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

32] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

33] Not even Hercules could contend against two

34] Mercy surpasses justice

35] The mean is the best

36] If the cap fits, wear it

37] Of evil manners, spring good laws

38] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

39] You cannot have it both ways

40] A soft answer turns away wrath

41] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

42] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

43] Little pitchers have big ears.

44] Love is lawless.

45] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

46] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

47] Many a little makes a mickle

48] A still tongue makes a wise head

49] Everything must have a beginning

50] The good die young.

51] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

52] Patient waiters are no losers

53] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

54] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

55] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

56] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

57] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

58] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

59] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

60] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

61] The company makes the feast

62] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

63] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

64] Tomorrow never comes

65] He that desires but little has no deed of much

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

67] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

68] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

69] Honour is the reward of virtue

70] Repentance comes too late

71] He that is born a fool is never cured

72] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

73] It takes all sorts to make a world

74] Wrong has no warrant

75] Men do more things through habit than reason

76] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

77] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

78] Borrowed garments never fit well

79] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

80] The cobbler should stick to his last

81] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

82] In peace, prepare for war

83] All truths are not to be told

84] He that obey cannot command

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

86] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

87] Health and money go far

88] What is worth doing is worth doing well

89] Wake not a sleeping lion

90] A jest breaks no bones

91] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

92] Petty laws breed great crimes

93] A good friend is my nearest relation

94] There is no blindness like ignorance

95] Best is cheapest

96] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

97] He that eats well should do his duty well

98] He knows the water best who has waded through it

99] The tongue talks at the heads cost

100] Honour is the reward of virtue