Famous Proverbs

1] Never spur a willing horse

2] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

3] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

4] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

5] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

6] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

7] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

8] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

9] Desires are nourished by delays

10] Praise no man till he is dead.

11] Opportunity makes the thief

12] What is the mother of industry

13] One thief will not rob another

14] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

15] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

16] The first step is the hardest

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

18] Every law has a loophole

19] A strong town is not won in an hour

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

21] All meat pleases not all mouths

22] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

23] Numbers overcome the brave

24] There’s no great loss without some gain

25] Do as I say, not as I do

26] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

27] Dying is as natural as living

28] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

29] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

30] A fool may give a wise man counsel

31] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

32] Birds once snared fear all bushes

33] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

34] Anger without power is folly

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

36] Sweet are the uses of adversity

37] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

38] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

39] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

40] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

41] Pride goes before a fall

42] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

43] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

44] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

45] One father is more than a hundred school masters

46] Hunger is the teacher of many

47] A bully never grows up.

48] Every bean has its black

49] Big fish eat little fish

50] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

51] A little too late, is much too late

52] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

53] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

54] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

55] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

56] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

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

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

59] The good is often the enemy of the best

60] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

61] Pursuits become habits

62] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

63] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

64] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

65] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

66] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

67] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

68] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

69] The devil lurks behind the cross

70] Better belly burst than good meat lost

71] There is a great difference between words and deeds

72] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

73] Accidents will happen

74] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

75] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

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

77] There is no accounting for tastes

78] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

79] Take time by the forelock

80] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

81] He who never was sick dies the first fit

82] He who excuses himself accuses himself

83] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

84] He knows most who speaks least

85] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

86] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

87] Beauty is only skin deep

88] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

89] The first blow is half the battle

90] No misfortune will go on forever

91] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

92] No man is wise at all times

93] No pains, no gains

94] Let sleeping dogs lie

95] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

96] Sooner begun, sooner done

97] Live and let live

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

99] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

100] He that sows virtue reaps fame