Famous Proverbs

1] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

2] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

3] Little things please little minds

4] Saying is one thing, and doing another

5] A single rose does not mean spring

6] Every advantage has its disadvantage

7] Many hands make light work

8] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

9] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

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

11] Rats know the ways of rats

12] Through obedience learn to command.

13] The voice is the best music

14] An honest good look covers many faults.

15] Anger managers everything badly.

16] The eye is bigger than the belly

17] It is ill striving against the stream

18] A good face is a letter of recommendation

19] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

20] The best things are hard to come by.

21] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

22] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

23] There is nothing lost by civility

24] Judge not, that ye be not judged

25] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

26] A knave and a fool never take thought

27] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

28] A burnt child dreads the fire

29] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

30] An old fox is not easily snared

31] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

32] A scalded cat fears hot water.

33] It is too late to call back yesterday

34] Petty laws breed great crimes

35] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

36] God’s lambs will play.

37] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

38] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

39] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

40] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

41] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

42] All our pomp the earth covers

43] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

44] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

45] A true friend is forever a friend

46] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

47] Parents are patterns

48] Love is lawless.

49] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

50] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

51] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

52] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

53] Extremes meet

54] Children and chickens must be always picking

55] Needs must when the devil drives

56] The early man ever borrows from the late man

57] Not even Hercules could contend against two

58] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

59] Never too late to learn

60] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

61] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

62] Do as say, not as I do

63] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

64] For a web begun, God sends the thread

65] Excessive happiness produces pain

66] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

67] A heavy purse makes a light heart

68] A good example is the best sermon

69] He that is absent is soon forgotten

70] Nature is conquered by obeying her

71] What has been, may be

72] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

73] The great would have none great, and the little all little

74] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

75] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

76] God made the country ,and man made the town

77] Do right and fear no man

78] Work expands so as to fill the time available

79] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

80] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

81] He that knows little often repeats it

82] Laws were made to be broke

83] Discontent is the first step in progress

84] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

85] Patient waiters are no losers

86] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

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

88] A learned man has always riches in himself

89] A true friend is forever a friend

90] Poor men’s words have little weight

91] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

92] Pleasant hours fly past

93] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

94] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

95] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

96] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

97] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

98] Better are small fish than an empty dish

99] A man with no hands is given a ring.

100] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest