Famous Proverbs

1] Words bind men

2] Poverty is no sin

3] Muck and money go together

4] Come with the wind, got with the water

5] One fool praises another

6] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

7] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

8] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

9] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

10] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

11] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

12] The biter is sometimes bit

13] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

14] He that talks much, errs much

15] A wise man hears one word and understands two

16] Brevity is the soul of wit

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

18] An old fox is not easily snared

19] No feast lasts forever.

20] Dumb men get no lands

21] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

22] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

23] A bad workman always blames his tools

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

25] Speech is silver, silence is golden

26] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

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

28] Nearest the heart comes out first

29] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

30] A traveller may lie with authority

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

32] Love will go through stone walls

33] Bread is the staff of life.

34] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

35] What is new cannot be true

36] Revenge is sweet

37] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

38] What is worse than ill luck?

39] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

40] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

41] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

42] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

43] High places have their precipices

44] Words and feathers the wind carries away

45] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

46] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

47] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

48] What is deferred is not abandoned

49] Nature hates all sudden changes

50] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

51] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

52] No one betrays himself by silence

53] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

54] Fine words dress ill deeds

55] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

56] A great city, a great solitude

57] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

58] Things are only worth one makes them worth

59] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

60] Through hardship to the stars

61] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

62] A true man and a thief think not the same

63] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

64] Where there is no trust there is no love

65] The more laws, the more offenders

66] Past cure, past care

67] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

68] Too much curiosity lost paradise

69] He thinks not well that thinks not again

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

71] The money you refuse will never do you good

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

73] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

74] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

75] Coming events cast their shadows before

76] Don’t tell tales out of school

77] Hard words break no bones

78] Tomorrow is another day

79] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

80] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

81] Young saint, old devil.

82] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

83] Misfortunes never come singly

84] You may have too much of a good thing

85] A fault once denied is twice committed

86] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

87] The tailor makes the man

88] Experience must be bought

89] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

90] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

91] First come, first served

92] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

93] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

94] Almost’ never killed a fly.

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

96] Life is short and time is swift

97] He who serves is not free

98] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

99] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

100] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death