Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing seek, nothing find

2] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

3] Where there’s a will there’s a way

4] A good wife is a good prize

5] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

6] The bull must be taken by the horns

7] A cat may look at a king

8] Laughter makes good blood

9] Soon hot, soon cold

10] Variety is the spice of life

11] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

12] No man is his craft’s master the first day

13] There’s always room at the top

14] Hard cases make bad law

15] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

16] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

17] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

18] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

19] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

20] Big fish eat little fish

21] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

22] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

23] More have repented speech than silence

24] Man punishes the action but God the intention

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

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

27] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

28] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

29] Bad excuses are worse than none.

30] All things are difficult before they are easy

31] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

32] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

33] Experience is good if not bought too dear

34] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

35] Creditors have better memories than debtors

36] Fire is a good servant a bad master

37] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

38] Pride goes before a fall

39] In indecision itself, grief is present.

40] Will is the cause of woe

41] Silence is golden

42] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

43] Words fly, writings remain

44] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

45] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

46] No man is wise at all times

47] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

48] Things are seldom what they seem.

49] Friendship should not be all on one

50] The sign brings customers

51] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

52] Every may be has a may not be

53] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

54] Never do things by halves

55] Now is now, and then was then

56] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

57] Live and Learn

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

59] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

60] The word is far him who has patience

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

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

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

64] Young colts will canter.

65] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

66] Step by step the ladder is ascended

67] Learning is the eye of the mind

68] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

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

70] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

71] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

72] A woman’s work is never done

73] Let like mate with like

74] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

75] A good heart cannot lie.

76] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

77] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

78] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

79] No land without stones, or meat without bones

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

81] Pitchers have ears

82] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

83] He that is down need fear no fall

84] The early bird catches the worm

85] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

86] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

87] Health is better than wealth

88] Might overcome right.

89] He that repairs not a part, builds all

90] Example is the greatest of all seducers

91] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

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

93] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

94] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

95] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

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

97] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

98] No cross, no crown

99] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

100] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away