Famous Proverbs

1] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

2] At a good bargain thinks twice

3] A great city, a great solitude

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

5] Don’t try to run before you walk

6] Anything will fit a naked man.

7] Sow thin and mow thin

8] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

9] Slow and steady wins the race

10] The absent saint gets no candle

11] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

12] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

13] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

14] Put not the bucket too often in the well

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

16] Silence and thinking can no man offend

17] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

18] The fairest flowers soonest fade

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

20] No good building without a good foundation.

21] Open a book and you profit by what you read

22] Hunger is the best sauce

23] Facts are stubborn things

24] Hope is the poor man’s bread

25] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

26] When the cat is away, the mice will play

27] Sow thin and mow thin

28] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

29] Kind hearts are more than coronets

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

31] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

32] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

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

34] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

35] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

36] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

37] Bind the sack before it be full

38] Accidents will happen

39] A great city, a great solitude

40] There is no fool like an old fool

41] Everything is good in its season

42] Desert and reward seldom keep company

43] He laughs best who laughs last

44] The longest day must have an end

45] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

46] Live and let live

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

48] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

49] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

50] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

51] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

52] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

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

54] Time flies

55] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

56] Well done is better than well said

57] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

58] A healthy man is a successful man

59] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

60] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

61] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

62] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

63] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

64] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

65] Borrowed garments never fit well

66] Truth is mighty and will prevail

67] Never do things by halves

68] First impressions are the most lasting

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

70] Advise none to marry or to go to war

71] Better children weep than old men

72] Men do more things through habit than reason

73] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

74] It is not every question that deserves an answer

75] No pain, no cure

76] A fool may give a wise man counsel

77] Take the tone of the company you are in

78] East or west, home is best

79] A bad workman always blames his tools

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

81] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

82] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

83] Practice makes perfect

84] A bribe will enter without knocking

85] Early sow, early mow

86] You win some, you lose some

87] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

88] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

89] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

90] Be just before you are generous

91] Love turns pimples

92] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

93] New brooms sweep clean

94] Set a thief to catch a thief

95] A cat may look at a king

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

97] Idleness is the root of all evil

98] Everything in moderation.

99] He is wise who looks ahead

100] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.