Famous Proverbs

1] Honesty is the best policy

2] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

3] A good name is better than a golden girdle

4] Two heads are better than one

5] Every man to his trade.

6] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

7] The weeds overgrow the corn.

8] Better a bare foot than none

9] Beware of him who makes thee presents

10] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

11] Necessity is a powerful weapon

12] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

13] The worse luck now, the better another time

14] All things are difficult before they are easy

15] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

16] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

17] The beaten road is the safest

18] Laws were made to be broke

19] Covetousness is the root of all evil

20] What is word but wind?

21] One sword keeps another in the sheath

22] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

23] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

24] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

25] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

26] Haste makes waste

27] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

28] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

29] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

30] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

31] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

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

33] He who owes is in all the wrong

34] What the king wills, that the law wills

35] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

36] Eat to live and not live to eat.

37] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

38] He who has seen little marvels much

39] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

40] Circumstances alter cases

41] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

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

43] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

44] Grasp all, lose all

45] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

46] A good paymaster never wants workmen

47] Strength grows stronger by being tried

48] No misfortune will go on forever

49] Beauty opens locked doors

50] Poverty is the mother of crime

51] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

52] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

53] Love knows no limit

54] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

55] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

56] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

57] Bear and forbear

58] Necessity is the mother of invention

59] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

60] Tempt not a desperate man

61] Our own opinion is never wrong

62] In wine there is truth

63] They say so’ is half a lie

64] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

65] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

66] No pain, no cure

67] Men are known by the company they keep.

68] Men make houses, women make homes

69] Every man is his own worst enemy

70] Death does not recognize strength

71] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

72] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

73] First think, and then speak

74] It is well to live that one may learn

75] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

76] An old fox is not easily snared

77] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

78] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

79] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

80] A man’s wealth is his enemy

81] One must be a servant before one can be a master

82] One man’s means another man’s poison

83] Discretion is the better part of valour

84] First come, first served

85] The golden age was never the present age

86] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

87] He is wise who looks ahead

88] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

89] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

90] The unexpected always happens.

91] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

92] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

93] Desire beautifies what is ugly

94] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

95] Blood will have blood

96] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

97] It is all in the day’s work

98] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

99] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

100] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels