Famous Proverbs

1] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

2] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

3] There is nothing like being on the safe side

4] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

5] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

6] Pursuits become habits

7] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

8] Money talks

9] Give credit where credit is due

10] Dirty linen should be washed at home

11] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

12] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

13] A good example is the best sermon

14] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

15] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

16] Pleasing ware is half sold

17] Slow help is no help

18] Think on the end before you begin

19] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

20] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

21] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

22] An Englishman’s home is his castle

23] Many dishes make many diseases

24] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

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

26] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

27] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

28] Virtue joints man to god

29] No pains, no gains

30] In indecision itself, grief is present.

31] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

32] Many dishes make many diseases

33] He that is absent is soon forgotten

34] He would command must serve

35] Fine feathers make fine birds.

36] Better say noting than no to the purpose

37] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

38] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

39] A man of courage never wants weapons

40] Charity begins at home.

41] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

42] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

43] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

44] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

45] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

46] So many countries, so many customs

47] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

48] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

49] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

50] Every medal has two sides

51] First thrive then wive

52] No tie can oblige the perfidious

53] A loveless life is a living death

54] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

55] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

56] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

57] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

58] Small is the seed of every greatness

59] Expectation is better than realisation

60] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

61] Long absent, soon forgotten

62] Excessive happiness produces pain

63] Diamond cuts diamond

64] A rolling stone gathers no moss

65] One swallow does not make a summer

66] Misfortune makes foes of friends

67] Work won’t kill but worry will.

68] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

69] Wake not a sleeping lion

70] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

71] Where god will help, nothing does harm

72] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

73] Money makes the man

74] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

75] Truth has no need of rhetoric

76] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

77] Enough is as good as a feast

78] Gifts blind the eyes.

79] A fool and his money are soon parted

80] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

81] The leopard cannot change its spots

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

83] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

84] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

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

86] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

87] The mob tramples on the coward

88] Good fame is better than a good face

89] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

90] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

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

92] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

93] Spare the rod and spoil the child

94] When the word is out it belongs to another

95] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

96] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

97] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

98] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

99] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

100] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.