Famous Proverbs

1] Like mistress, like maid

2] Many eyes upon the king

3] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

4] He travels the fastest who travels alone

5] A little learning is dangerous thing

6] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

7] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

8] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

9] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

10] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

11] When the cat is away, the mice will play

12] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

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

14] There is truth in wine

15] It is not work that kills but worry

16] The good is often the enemy of the best

17] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

18] It is never too late to mend

19] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

20] No honest man ever repented his honesty

21] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

22] A fault confessed is half redressed

23] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

24] All is fair in love and war

25] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

26] Nature hates all sudden changes

27] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

28] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

29] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

30] Plain dealing is best

31] Health without money is half an ague

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

33] He who owes is in all the wrong

34] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

35] Pat any man and dust will fly

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

37] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

38] Jesters do oft prove prophets

39] First catch your hare

40] Novelty always appears handsome

41] Put out your tubs when it is raining

42] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

43] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

44] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

45] It is useless to flog a dead horse

46] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

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

48] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

49] Like will to like

50] All things require skills but an appetite

51] Diamond cuts diamond

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

53] Pursuits become habits

54] A good name is sooner lost than won

55] A fault confessed is half redressed

56] When one door shuts, another opens

57] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

58] Half a word is enough for a wise man

59] In indecision itself, grief is present.

60] There is nothing new under the sun

61] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

62] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

63] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

64] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

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

66] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

67] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

68] Better late than never, but better never late

69] He that praises himself, spatters himself

70] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

71] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

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

73] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

74] All things are easy, that are done willingly

75] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

76] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

77] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

78] Sorrow will pay no debt

79] Precepts may lead but examples draw

80] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

81] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

82] It is well to live that one may learn

83] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

84] Health and wealth create beauty

85] Fine words dress ill deeds

86] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

87] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

88] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

89] Great hopes make great men

90] Half a word is enough for a wise man

91] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

92] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

93] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

94] In peace, prepare for war

95] Borrowed garments never fit well

96] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

97] Many drops make a shower

98] The poor suffer all the wrong

99] Poor men’s words have little weight

100] Words fly, writings remain