Famous Proverbs

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

2] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

3] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

4] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

5] Every groom is a king at home

6] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

7] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

8] Friendship should not be all on one side

9] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

10] The devil lurks behind the cross

11] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

12] The longest day must have an end

13] Habit is second nature

14] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

15] Might overcome right.

16] Time has wings

17] A living dog is better than a dead lion

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

19] The early man ever borrows from the late man

20] Better to ask the way than go astray.

21] Fools grow without watering.

22] A friend is easier lost than found

23] What is deferred is not abandoned

24] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

25] The hand that gives, gathers

26] He that sows virtue reaps fame

27] East or west, home is best

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

29] A door must be either shut or open

30] What can’t be cured must be endured

31] To err is human; to forgive, divine

32] No flying without wings.

33] A little help is worth a deal of pity

34] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

35] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

36] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

37] What has been, may be

38] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

39] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

40] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

41] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

42] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

43] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

44] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

45] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

46] Patience is a plaster for all sores

47] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

48] Idle folks lack no excuses

49] Know thyself

50] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

51] Weeds need no sowing

52] Ready money is a ready remedy

53] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

54] The best things are hard to come by.

55] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

56] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

57] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

58] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

59] Morning dreams come true

60] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

61] Do right and fear no man

62] Many a little makes a mickle

63] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

64] A useful trade is a mine of gold

65] New things are fair

66] All covet all lose.

67] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

68] Experience is good if not bought too dear

69] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

70] He that eats well should do his duty well

71] All glory comes from daring to begin

72] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

73] Anger without power is folly

74] Words fly, writings remain

75] The best go first

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

77] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

78] Thrift is a great revenue

79] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

80] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

81] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

82] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

83] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

84] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

85] Spread the table, and contention will cease

86] Other times, other manners

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

88] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

89] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

90] A fool always rushes to the fore.

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

92] Silence and thinking can no man offend

93] A little is better than none

94] Human blood is all of a colour

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

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

97] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

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

99] Go not to hell for company

100] What is the mother of industry