Famous Proverbs

1] A man’s wealth is his enemy

2] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

3] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

4] The more laws, the more offenders

5] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

6] Enough is enough

7] An ill tongue may do much

8] The beaten road is the safest

9] After the extreme of cold comes spring

10] New lords, new laws

11] Innocence is no protection

12] You cannot serve God and Mammon

13] Company in misery makes it light

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

15] Better children weep than old men

16] Little pitchers have big ears.

17] Laws were made to be broke

18] No wrong without a remedy

19] Small is beautiful

20] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

21] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

22] An evil life is a kind of death.

23] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

24] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

25] Better an apple given than eaten

26] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

27] The mean is the best

28] There is death in the pot.

29] Spend and be free, but make no waste

30] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

31] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

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

33] Give and take is fair play

34] Cheap is dear in the long run.

35] The end crowns the work.

36] It is easier to pull down than to build

37] One kindness is the price of another

38] Soft fire makes sweet malt

39] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

40] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

41] It takes two to make a quarrel

42] No pain, no cure

43] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

44] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

45] Failure teaches success

46] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

47] The more wicked, the more lucky

48] Despair gives courage to a coward

49] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

50] The mob has many heads but no brains

51] Often and little eating makes a man fat

52] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

53] No man is infallible

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

55] There is honour among thieves

56] Death is the grand leveler

57] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

58] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

59] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

60] Might is right

61] Health is not value till sickness comes

62] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

63] The devil dances in an empty pocket

64] When meat is in anger is out

65] The unexpected always happens.

66] Live and let live

67] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

68] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

69] The tongue talks at the heads cost

70] Nature hates all sudden changes

71] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

72] Full of courtesy, full of craft

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

74] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

75] Some are wise and some are otherwise

76] Accidents will happen

77] Put not the bucket too often in the well

78] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

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

80] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

81] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

82] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

83] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

84] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

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

86] Change of pasture makes fat calves

87] Who greases his way travels easily

88] Dead dogs bark not

89] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

90] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

91] How forceful are right words

92] Silence never makes mistakes

93] Dying men speak true

94] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

95] A good conscience is a sure card

96] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

97] Bold men have generous hearts

98] If one will not, another will

99] Repentance is a bitter physic

100] New things are fair