Famous Proverbs

1] Easier said than done

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

3] The young will sow their wild oats

4] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

5] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

6] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

7] There is nothing that costs less than civility

8] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

9] A good heart cannot lie.

10] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

11] It takes two to make a quarrel

12] Friends are thieves of time

13] Too much cunning undoes

14] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

15] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

16] Do not limp before the lame

17] Everything new is fine

18] Do it now

19] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

20] The last drop makes the cup run over

21] Example is better than precept

22] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

23] Actions speak louder than words

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

25] Better belly burst than good meat lost

26] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

27] Little things please little minds

28] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

29] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

30] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

31] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

32] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

33] Good ware makes quick market

34] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

35] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

36] What can’t be cured must be endured

37] Needs must when the evil drives

38] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

39] Borrowed garments never fit well

40] Ill news comes unsent for.

41] Expectation is better than realisation

42] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

43] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

44] The greatest talkers are the least doers

45] Law makers should not be law breakers

46] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

47] Blue are the far away hills

48] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

49] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

50] God is a sure paymaster

51] Much babbling is not without offence

52] The ant had wings to her hurt

53] Go not to hell for company

54] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

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

56] A man in debt is caught in a net

57] Praises fill not the belly

58] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

59] Put out your tubs when it is raining

60] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

61] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

62] Look at the bright side

63] Truth is mighty and will prevail

64] What has been, may be

65] Forecast is better than work-hard

66] He who hesitates is lost

67] A heavy purse makes a light heart

68] Work smart; don’t work hard

69] Repentance is a bitter physic

70] The best things in life are free

71] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

72] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

73] Dying men speak true

74] What will not money do?

75] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

76] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

77] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

78] Never grieve for what you cannot help

79] Fools rejoice at promises

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

81] Money refused loses its brightness

82] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

83] Virtue is its own reward

84] Think on the end before you begin

85] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

86] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

87] There is no place like home

88] Handsome is as handsome does

89] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

90] More haste, less speed

91] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

92] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

93] Don’t put the cart before the horse

94] All things are easy, that are done willingly

95] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

96] Live and Learn

97] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

98] Mirth is the sugar of life

99] Better are small fish than an empty dish

100] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it