Famous Proverbs

1] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

2] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

3] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

4] Death keeps no calendar

5] Failure teaches success

6] It is all in the day’s work

7] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

8] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

9] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

10] Empty vessels make the most noise

11] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

12] Silence is also speech

13] It is the first step that is troublesome

14] Prospect is often better than possession

15] A cat has nine lives

16] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

17] Ill gotten, ill spent

18] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

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

20] Of two evils choose the lesser

21] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

22] Misfortune makes foes of friends

23] A man in debt is caught in a net

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

25] A word is enough to the wise

26] An obedient wife commands her husband

27] The dog is a lion in his own house

28] Charity begins at home.

29] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

30] No man fears what he has seen grow

31] One cannot put back the clock

32] There is no redemption from hell

33] What is worse than ill luck?

34] He knows most who speaks least

35] Life begins only in success

36] Poverty parts friendship

37] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

38] An old man is a bed full of bones

39] There is nothing that costs less than civility

40] The labour we delight in physics pain

41] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

42] Every dog is a lion at home

43] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

44] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

46] All glory comes from daring to begin

47] None so busy as those who do nothing.

48] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

49] Gluttony kills more than the sword

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

51] What everybody says must be true

52] He who serves is not free

53] Petty laws breed great crimes

54] Live and let live

55] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

56] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

57] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

58] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

59] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

60] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

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

62] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

63] Affection blinds reason

64] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

65] Light grows the burden which is well borne

66] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

67] He is an ill husband who is not missed

68] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

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

70] One is never too old to learn

71] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

72] An old man is a bed full of bones

73] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

74] Years know more than books

75] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

76] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

77] The more wicked, the more lucky

78] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

79] Children should be seen and not heard

80] He that pities another remembers himself

81] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

82] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

83] A jest breaks no bones

84] Every dog is a lion at home

85] God’s lambs will play.

86] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

87] Where there’s muck, there’s money

88] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

89] It is more pain to do nothing than something

90] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

91] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

92] Kind hearts are more than coronets

93] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

94] A good face is a letter of recommendation

95] Affection blinds reason

96] Lookers-on see most of the game

97] Example is better than precept

98] Lookers-on see more than players

99] He that pities another remembers himself

100] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool