Famous Proverbs

1] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

2] What is word but wind?

3] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

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

5] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

6] After the extreme of cold comes spring

7] A hedge between keeps friendship green

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

9] Advice when most needed is least heeded

10] Do not kick against the pricks

11] Desires are nourished by delays

12] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

13] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

14] Love is without reason

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

16] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

17] Empty vessels make the most noise

18] The wisest of the wise may err.

19] III luck is good for something

20] Of evil manners, spring good laws

21] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

22] Parents are patterns

23] A little too late, is much too late

24] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

25] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

26] Love sees no fault

27] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

28] Never judge from appearances

29] Many dishes make many diseases

30] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

31] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

32] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

33] Care brings grey hair.

34] It is as natural to die as to be born

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

36] A little body often harbours a great soul

37] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

38] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

39] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

40] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

41] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

42] Often and little eating makes a man fat

43] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

44] Young colts will canter.

45] Little by little and bit by bit.

46] Procrastination is the thief of time

47] The weeds overgrow the corn.

48] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

49] The wisest of the wise may err.

50] Patient waiters are no losers

51] He that has no shame has no conscience

52] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

53] Wrong has no warrant

54] There is a great difference between words and deeds

55] Great oaks from little acorns grow

56] Nature abhors a vacuum

57] One of these days is none of these days

58] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

59] One is never too old to learn

60] The devil is not as black as he is painted

61] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

62] A crust is better than no bread.

63] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

64] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

65] No man can serve two masters

66] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

67] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

68] Men are known by the company they keep.

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

70] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

71] An evil life is a kind of death.

72] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

73] Health and wealth create beauty

74] Out of debt, out of danger

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

76] Mere wishes are silly fishes

77] The great would have none great, and the little all little

78] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

79] Nothing succeeds like success

80] A cat has nine lives

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

82] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

83] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

84] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

85] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

86] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

87] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

88] Children speak only words they have heard.

89] An ill tongue may do much

90] Black will take no other hue

91] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

92] Hasty work, double work,

93] Nature is the true law

94] What is word but wind?

95] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

96] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

97] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

98] Don’t put the cart before the horse

99] Soon hot, soon cold

100] Through hardship to the stars