Famous Proverbs

1] He that has plenty of goods will have more

2] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

3] Hungry bellies have no ears

4] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

5] He gives twice who gives quickly

6] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

7] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

8] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

9] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

10] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

11] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

12] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

13] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

14] Crows are all completely black

15] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

16] Hungry bellies have no ears

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

18] It is easier to pull down than to build

19] A good drink makes the old young

20] He that has no money needs no purse

21] The devil is not as black as he is painted

22] He stands not surely that never slips

23] The mean is the best

24] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

25] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

26] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

27] Every groom is a king at home

28] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

29] Youth will have its course.

30] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

31] Waste is not grandeur

32] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

33] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

34] Beauty is only skin deep

35] Dying men speak true

36] The child is father of the man

37] He that praises himself, spatters himself

38] Lovers are madmen

39] Great oaks from little acorns grow

40] Too far east is west

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

42] When the word is out it belongs to another

43] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

44] Keep some till further more come

45] He who demands does not command

46] Good words are worth much and cost little

47] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

48] What’s in a name?

49] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

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

51] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

52] The tailor makes the man

53] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

54] One must be a servant before one can be a master

55] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

56] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

57] Beauty opens locked doors

58] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

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

60] Good to begin well, better to end well.

61] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

62] Gifts blind the eyes.

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

64] His bark is worse than his bite

65] A fool and his money are soon parted

66] You cannot have it both ways

67] A good husband makes a good wife

68] Pardon makes offenders

69] Bear and forbear

70] Truth is god’s daughter

71] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

72] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

73] Without luck, it is better not to be born

74] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

75] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

76] There are spots even in the sun

77] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

78] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

79] The mob has many heads but no brains

80] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

81] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

82] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

83] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

84] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

85] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

86] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

87] Accidents will happen

88] The best things carried to excess are wrong

89] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

90] Better unborn than untaught

91] Pleasing ware is half sold

92] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

93] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

94] Light burden I heavy if far borne

95] Alms never make poor

96] Handsome is as handsome does

97] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

98] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

99] Better children weep than old men

100] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him