Famous Proverbs

1] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

2] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

3] It is best to be on the safe side

4] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

5] The lion had need of the mouse

6] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

7] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

8] There is honour among thieves

9] Spread the table, and contention will cease

10] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

11] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

12] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

13] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

14] Dirty water does not wash clean.

15] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

16] You never know what you can do till you try

17] Out of sight, out of mind

18] Faint heart never won fair lady

19] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

20] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

21] The receiver is as bad as the thief

22] Like breeds like

23] The devil knows many things because he is old

24] It is never too late to mend

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

26] A crust is better than no bread.

27] Practice is the science that gives confidence

28] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

29] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

30] The biter is sometimes bit

31] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

32] There are more ways to the wood than one.

33] Time lost cannot be recalled

34] From small beginnings come great things

35] Blue are the far away hills

36] Time lost cannot be recalled

37] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

38] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

39] Waste makes wants

40] The envious man shall never want woe

41] The value of money is having it.

42] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

43] They that dance must pay the fiddler

44] He who comes first, grinds first.

45] A healthy man is a successful man

46] Soon gotten, soon spent

47] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

48] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

49] Life begins only in success

50] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

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

52] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

53] He who does no good, does evil enough

54] All things are easy, that are done willingly

55] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

56] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

57] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

58] Appearances are deceptive

59] Least said, soonest mended

60] Like will to like

61] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

62] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

63] Charity begins at home.

64] Might overcome right.

65] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

66] Books and friends should be few but good

67] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

68] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

69] Moderation in all things

70] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

71] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

72] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

73] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

74] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

75] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

76] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

77] One potter envies another

78] The poor suffer all the wrong

79] One cannot put back the clock

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

81] A good example is the best sermon

82] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

83] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

84] Virtue carries a lean purse

85] There is death in the pot.

86] He knows which side his bread is buttered

87] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

88] Prospect is often better than possession

89] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

90] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

91] A jest breaks no bones

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

93] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

94] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

95] Jack is as good as his master

96] Open a book and you profit by what you read

97] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

98] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

99] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

100] There’s small choice in rotten apples.