Famous Proverbs

1] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

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

3] Live not to eat, but eat to live

4] Through hardship to the stars

5] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

6] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

7] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

8] Travel broadens the mind

9] Little and often fills the purse

10] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

11] The Pen is mightier than the sword

12] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

13] All things are easy, that are done willingly

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

15] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

16] A crowd is not company

17] Where there’s a will there’s a way

18] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

19] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

20] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

21] Business is business

22] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

23] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

24] How forceful are right words

25] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

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

27] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

28] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

29] Moderation in all things

30] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

31] Tempt not a desperate man

32] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

33] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

34] When bees area old, they yield n honey

35] The highest branch is not the safest roost

36] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

37] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

38] Crows are all completely black

39] Little and often fills the purse

40] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

41] What is worth doing is worth doing well

42] A good beginning is half the battle.

43] Virtue is the only true nobility

44] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

45] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

46] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

47] Wrong never comes right

48] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

49] Birds once snared fear all bushes

50] Don’t play with edged tools

51] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

52] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

53] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

54] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

55] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

56] Poverty is the mother of crime

57] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

58] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

59] They also serve who only stand and wait

60] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

61] Debt is an evil conscience

62] Paddle your own canoe

63] No choice amongst stinking fish

64] Save your breath to cool the porridge

65] Life is short and time is swift

66] An evil life is a kind of death.

67] No honest man ever repented his honesty

68] All lay loads on a willing horse

69] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

70] He that is down need fear no fall

71] Excessive happiness produces pain

72] Once bitten, twice shy.

73] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

74] Riches along make no men happy

75] A good marksman may miss

76] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

77] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

78] Good hand, good hire

79] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

80] A rich man’s joke is always funny

81] Love is without reason

82] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

83] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

84] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

85] A bully never grows up.

86] He is lifeless that is faultless

87] Rats know the ways of rats

88] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

89] The voice is the best music

90] Dumb dogs are dangerous

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

92] Every advantage has its disadvantage

93] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

94] Gossiping and lying go together

95] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

96] Little things are pretty

97] Words fly, writings remain

98] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

99] The greatest step is that out of doors

100] Learning is the eye of the mind