Famous Proverbs

1] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

2] A light purse makes a heavy heart

3] Friendship should not be all on one

4] East or west, home is best

5] Pleasing ware is half sold

6] Best is cheapest

7] Revenge never repairs an injury

8] Sorrow will pay no debt

9] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

10] There is a great difference between words and deeds

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

12] Practice what you preach

13] You may have too much of a good thing

14] All truths are not to be told

15] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

16] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

17] Soft fire makes sweet malt

18] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

19] New brooms sweep clean

20] When angry, count a hundred

21] Every beginning is hard

22] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

23] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

24] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

25] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

26] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

27] Honour is the reward of virtue

28] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

29] Far from eye, far from heart

30] Slow help is no help

31] What is worse than ill luck?

32] You may know by a handful the whole sack

33] Don’t take your harp to the party

34] The end justifies the means

35] Threatened folk live long

36] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

37] Look before you leap

38] The righteous man sins before an open chest

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

40] Do as the friar says, not as he does

41] Friends agree best at a distance

42] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

43] All’s well that ends well

44] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

45] The fox may grow grey, but never good

46] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

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

48] All men are mortal

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

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

51] Better children weep than old men

52] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

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

54] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

55] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

56] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

57] Do unto others as they should do unto you

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

59] Evil to him who evil thinks.

60] Self do, self have

61] The best of friends must part

62] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

63] Home is home though it be never so homely

64] The dog is a lion in his own house

65] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

66] Jack is as good as his master

67] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

68] Dreams are lies

69] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

70] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

71] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

72] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

73] Virtue is the only true nobility

74] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

75] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

76] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

77] Nearest the heart comes out first

78] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

79] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

80] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

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

82] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

83] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

84] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

85] You can’t tell a book by its cover

86] Make the best of a bad job

87] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

88] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

89] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

90] He that can stay. Obtains

91] Judge not the tree by its bark

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

93] Opportunity makes the thief

94] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

95] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

96] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

97] Hope often deludes the foolish man

98] A word to the wise is enough

99] A little impatience will spoil great plans

100] Example is the greatest of all seducers