Famous Proverbs

1] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

2] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

3] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

4] Every little helps

5] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

6] He that will thrive must rise at five

7] Lovers are madmen

8] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

9] Lose a leg rather than a life

10] A good beginning makes a good ending.

11] The end justifies the means

12] Love is without reason

13] Cleanliness is next to godliness

14] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

15] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

16] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

17] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

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

19] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

20] Every cloud has a silver lining

21] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

22] Walls have ears

23] There is no redemption from hell

24] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

25] A willful man will have his way

26] If anything can go wrong, it will

27] He mediates revenge who least complains.

28] Great oaks from little acorns grow

29] It’s a long lane that has no turning

30] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

31] That which proves too much proves nothing

32] Lend your money and lose a friend

33] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

34] The highest branch is not the safest roost

35] Whatever man has done, man can do

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

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

38] Friends agree best at a distance

39] An Englishman’s home is his castle

40] Once a knave, always a knave

41] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

42] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

43] Asking costs little

44] It never rains it pours

45] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

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

47] Silence gives (or means) consent

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

49] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

50] You can’t take it with you when you die

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

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

53] Learn to walk before you run

54] Standing pools gather fifth

55] Practice is the science that gives confidence

56] There is no tree but bears some fruit

57] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

58] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

59] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

60] The falling drops hollow the stone

61] All must be as God will

62] A crowd is not company

63] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

64] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

65] No man is content with his lot

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

67] He that promises too much means nothing

68] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

69] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

70] The best things carried to excess are wrong

71] If the cap fits, wear it

72] Weak things united become strong

73] Every medal has two sides

74] There is no rose without a thorn

75] Death alone can kill hope

76] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

77] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

78] An old fox is not easily snared

79] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

80] No road is long with good company

81] He freezes who does not burn

82] Men are not angles

83] No land without stones, or meat without bones

84] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

85] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

86] The day obliterates the promise of the might

87] Everything is good in its season

88] Anything will fit a naked man.

89] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

90] He that knows little often repeats it

91] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

92] There is nothing lost by civility

93] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

94] The rich knows not who is his friend

95] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

96] Long absent, soon forgotten

97] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

98] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

99] Example is the greatest of all seducers

100] A merry companion is a wagon on the way