Famous Proverbs

1] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

2] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

3] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

4] Think of ease, but work on.

5] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

6] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

7] The borrower is servant to the lender

8] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

9] He that is absent is soon forgotten

10] Hunger is the best sauce

11] Every light has its shadow

12] When in doubt, do nothing

13] Diamond cuts diamond

14] Accidents will happen

15] Weapons breed peace

16] Every man to his trade.

17] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

18] Two wrongs do not make a right

19] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

20] So many countries, so many customs

21] From word to deed is a great space

22] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

23] Grin and bear it

24] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

25] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

26] Honour is the reward of virtue

27] The good die young.

28] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

29] Six feet of earth make all men equal

30] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

31] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

32] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

33] A single rose does not mean spring

34] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

35] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

36] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

37] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

38] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

39] The best fish swim near the bottom

40] Forgive and forget

41] Extremes are dangerous

42] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

43] One today is worth two tomorrows

44] Facts are stubborn things

45] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

46] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

47] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

48] If today will not, tomorrow may

49] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

50] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

51] God sends cold after Clothes

52] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

53] Give and spend, and God will send

54] Dumb men get no lands

55] Marriage makes or mars a man

56] Children should be seen and not heard

57] The mob tramples on the coward

58] Beauty is only skin deep

59] Cheats never prosper

60] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

61] Every medal has two sides

62] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

63] Fool’s haste is no speed

64] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

65] Never buy a pig in a poke

66] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

67] Haste is of (or from) the devil

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

69] Affection blinds reason

70] It is ill striving against the stream

71] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

72] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

73] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

74] God makes the back for the burden

75] He who owes is in all the wrong

76] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

77] Haste makes waste

78] A little body often harbours a great soul

79] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

80] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

81] Self-praise is no recommendation

82] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

83] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

84] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

85] That which proves too much proves nothing

86] Two heads are better than one

87] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

88] A man with no hands is given a ring.

89] Tell the truth and shame the devil

90] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

91] Better children weep than old men

92] What must be must be

93] A good friend is my nearest relation

94] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

95] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

96] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

97] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

98] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

99] Words fly, writings remain

100] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox