Famous Proverbs

1] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

2] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

3] When wine sinks, words swim

4] Prevention is better than cure

5] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

6] Take time by the forelock

7] No man fears what he has seen grow

8] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

9] There is nothing lost by civility

10] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

11] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

12] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

13] Out of debt, out of danger

14] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

15] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

16] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

17] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

18] The falling drops hollow the stone

19] Homo is a common name to all men.

20] Every medal has two sides

21] One good turn deserves another

22] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

23] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

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

25] A crowd is not company

26] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

27] A fault once denied is twice committed

28] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

29] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

30] He that praises himself, spatters himself

31] Where there is no might, right loses itself

32] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

33] Long looked for, comes at last

34] Exchange is no robbery

35] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

36] The hand that gives, gathers

37] Envy never enriched any man.

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

39] New lords, new laws

40] Fine words dress ill deeds

41] What will not money do?

42] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

43] He that eats least eats most

44] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

45] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

46] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

47] The garment worn determines how one is served

48] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

49] Little and often fills the purse

50] Learn to walk before you run

51] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

52] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

53] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

54] New meat begets a new appetite

55] One swallow does not make a summer

56] Early sow, early mow

57] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

58] A word is enough to the wise

59] Cheap is dear in the long run.

60] Dog does not eat dog

61] Give a loan and buy quarrel

62] The best things in life are free

63] Black will take no other hue

64] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

65] Crust is better than no bread

66] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

67] First creep, then walk

68] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

69] Whatever man has done, man can do

70] Every commodity has its discommodity

71] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

72] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

73] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

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

75] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

76] Ready money is a ready remedy

77] He conquers who endures

78] Names are debts

79] We soon believe what we desire

80] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

81] No man limps because another is hurt

82] A good payer is master of another’s purse

83] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

84] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

85] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

86] The best things carried to excess are wrong

87] In the land of hope there is never any winter

88] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

89] Silence and thinking can no man offend

90] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

91] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

92] Exchange is no robbery

93] All men are mortal

94] The dog that fetches, will carry.

95] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

96] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

97] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

98] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

99] The more wicked, the more lucky

100] Hope is but the dream of those that wake