Famous Proverbs

1] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

2] A living dog is better than a dead lion

3] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

4] Experience is good if not bought too dear

5] Never judge from appearances

6] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

7] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

8] Diamond cuts diamond

9] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

10] He who sows, trusts in God

11] Better no doctor at all than three.

12] Patient men with the day.

13] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

14] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

15] First impressions are half the battle

16] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

17] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

18] One of these days is none of these days

19] You cannot serve God and Mammon

20] Exchange is no robbery

21] The garment worn determines how one is served

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

23] A man can die but once

24] Dying men speak true

25] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

26] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

27] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

28] The hole calls the thief

29] Suffering does not manifest itself

30] Virtue carries a lean purse

31] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

32] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

33] Time lost cannot be recalled

34] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

35] The more laws, the more offenders

36] He gives twice who gives quickly

37] Manners make the man

38] God is a sure paymaster

39] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

40] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

41] Go while the going is good

42] The first step is the hardest

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

44] Failure teaches success

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

46] A house divided against itself cannot stand

47] The axe falls on a straight tree first

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

49] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

50] That which is easily done is soon believed

51] It is more pain to do nothing than something

52] Make the best of a bad bargain

53] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

54] Tomorrow is another day

55] It is good to follow the old fox

56] Hitch your wagon to a star

57] Speech is silver, silence is golden

58] The first step is the only difficulty

59] Man cannot live by bread alone

60] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

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

62] Wrong has no warrant

63] Out of debt, out of danger

64] Time has wings

65] The ant had wings to her hurt

66] There’s a time and place for everything

67] Let like mate with like

68] Soft fire makes sweet malt

69] Fools live poor to die rich

70] Gold may be bought too dear

71] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

72] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

73] His bark is worse than his bite

74] We soon believe what we desire

75] Necessity is the mother of invention

76] There are more men threatened than stricken

77] The mob tramples on the coward

78] Truth is god’s daughter

79] Two wrongs do not make a right

80] A fool believes everything

81] His bark is worse than his bite

82] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

83] He who demands does not command

84] See how the wind blows

85] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

86] Precept begins, examples accomplish

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

88] The last suitor wins the maid

89] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

90] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

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

92] Long life has long misery

93] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

94] Dead men don’t bite

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

96] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

97] No man so good but another may be as good as he

98] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

99] Wiles help weak folk

100] A good payer is master of another’s purse