Famous Proverbs

1] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

2] Speech is silver, silence is golden

3] He travels the fastest who travels alone

4] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

5] If you play with fire you get burnt

6] Comparisons are odious

7] In indecision itself, grief is present.

8] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

9] Ale will make a cat speak

10] Don’t play with edged tools

11] Confess and be hanged

12] Lookers-on see most of the game

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

14] The first step is the hardest

15] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

16] It is easier to pull down than to build

17] A good beginning makes a good ending.

18] Don’t put the cart before the horse

19] Tell a lie and stick to it.

20] Do as say, not as I do

21] The highest branch is not the safest roost

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

23] Never do things by halves

24] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

25] God helps those who help themselves

26] What’s done cannot be undone

27] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

28] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

29] Do as the friar says, not as he does

30] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

31] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

32] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

33] God’s help is better than the early rising

34] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

35] A constant guest is never welcome

36] He gives twice who gives quickly

37] Excessive happiness produces pain

38] Bare walls make giddy housewives

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

40] East or west, home is best

41] By falling we learn to go safely

42] The sun shines upon all alike.

43] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

44] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

45] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

46] Who suffers much is silent

47] He has not lost all who has one cast left

48] Wine is the best broom for trouble

49] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

50] A goose drinks as much as gander

51] Spend and be free, but make no waste

52] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

53] There is none misfortune cannot reach

54] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

55] Men do more things through habit than reason

56] A man’s wealth is his enemy

57] The end crowns the work.

58] All things require skills but an appetite

59] Misery loves company.

60] He who considers too much will perform little.

61] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

62] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

63] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

64] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

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

66] All roads lead to Rome

67] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

68] Harp not for ever on the same string

69] For a web begun, God sends the thread

70] Trusting often makes fidelity

71] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

72] The early bird catches the worm

73] It is too late to look up after you have collided

74] Home is home though it be never so homely

75] Faint heart never won fair lady

76] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

77] His bark is worse than his bite

78] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

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

80] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

81] Ambition loses many a man

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

83] Cut your coat according to your cloth

84] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

85] Travel broadens the mind

86] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

87] The best things in life are free

88] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

89] Go not to hell for company

90] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

91] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

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

93] No pain, no cure

94] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

95] In indecision itself, grief is present.

96] In wine there is truth

97] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

98] A joke’s a very serious thing

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

100] Thrift is a great revenue