Famous Proverbs

1] Corn him well and he will work better

2] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

3] Bind the sack before it be full

4] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

5] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

6] A good drink makes the old young

7] Success has many friends

8] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

9] Crowns have cares

10] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

11] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

12] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

13] An empty sack cannot stand upright

14] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

15] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

16] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

17] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

18] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

19] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

20] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

21] What will not money do?

22] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

23] Go not to hell for company

24] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

25] He that pities another remembers himself

26] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

27] First think, and then speak

28] The fairest silk is soonest stained

29] The beaten road is the safest

30] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

31] The road to hell is paved with good action

32] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

33] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

34] Children and fools cannot lie.

35] Love knows hidden paths

36] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

37] The sign brings customers

38] He that burns most, shines most

39] It is too late to look up after you have collided

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

41] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

42] Delay is the antidote of anger

43] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

44] The unexpected always happens.

45] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

46] Better the foot slip than the tongue

47] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

48] Poor folk fare the best

49] The tide must be taken when it comes

50] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

51] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

52] It’s a long lane that has no turning

53] Be just before you are generous

54] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

55] Virtue is the only true nobility

56] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

57] One must howl with the wolves

58] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

59] A healthy man is a successful man

60] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

61] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

62] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

63] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

64] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

65] Cheats never prosper

66] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

67] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

68] Everything is good in its season

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

70] Like master, like man

71] A man may learn wit every day.

72] He may find fault that cannot mend

73] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

74] You may know by a handful the whole sack

75] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

76] No man is content with his lot

77] Cast not the first stone.

78] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

79] You never know your luck

80] One sheep follows another

81] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

82] Barking dogs seldom bite

83] No tie can oblige the perfidious

84] He who excuses himself accuses himself

85] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

86] We live laws, not by examples

87] No convenience without its inconvenience

88] When one door shuts, another opens

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

90] There is no smoke without fire

91] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

92] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

93] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

94] No like is the same.

95] Hunger breaks stone walls

96] Live and let live

97] Talk much end err much

98] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

99] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

100] Jesters do oft prove prophets