Famous Proverbs

1] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

2] What is a workman without his tools?

3] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

4] Better sit still than rise and fall

5] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

6] Call a spade a spade

7] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

8] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

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

10] A knave and a fool never take thought

11] Death is the grand leveler

12] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

13] He that promises too much means nothing

14] Charity excuseth not cheating.

15] Enough is as good as a feast

16] He that brings good news, knocks hard

17] It is best to be on the safe side

18] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

19] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

20] Children should be seen and not heard

21] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

22] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

23] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

24] Dying is as natural as living

25] Patient waiters are no losers

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

27] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

28] Hear twice before you speak once

29] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

30] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

31] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

32] He who wills the end, Wills the means

33] Silence is a woman’s best garment

34] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

35] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

36] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

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

38] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

39] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

40] We have all been once in our life

41] Give credit where credit is due

42] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

43] He that speaks well, flights well

44] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

45] As you bake, so shall you eat.

46] Forgive and forget

47] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

48] Precepts may lead but examples draw

49] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

50] An ill tongue may do much

51] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

52] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

53] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

54] Love conquers all

55] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

56] Kingdoms divided soon fall

57] Share and share alike

58] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

59] Misfortune does not always come to injure

60] Everything must have a beginning

61] Two blacks do not make a white

62] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

63] Lovers are madmen

64] Every flow must have its ebb

65] It is misery enough to have once been happy

66] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

67] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

68] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

69] What’s done is done

70] A fool may give a wise man counsel

71] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

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

73] One thief will not rob another

74] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

75] By falling we learn to go safely

76] A little help is worth a deal of pity

77] A gift much expected is paid, not given

78] Still waters run deep

79] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

80] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

81] No man is a hero to his valet

82] First creep, then walk

83] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

84] Where god will help, nothing does harm

85] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

86] There is safety in numbers

87] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

88] You win some, you lose some

89] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

90] Love your friend with his fault

91] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

92] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

93] A loveless life is a living death

94] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

95] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

96] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

97] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

98] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

99] An oak is not felled at one stroke

100] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse