Famous Proverbs

1] Danger makes men devout

2] A gift much expected is paid, not given

3] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

4] The faulty stands on his guard

5] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

6] Slow but sure wins the race

7] The best things are hard to come by.

8] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

9] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

10] Don’t tell tales out of school

11] Adventures are to be adventurous

12] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

13] Dirty water does not wash clean.

14] The golden age was never the present age

15] Water is the king of food

16] Barking dogs seldom bite

17] Better to be safe than sorry.

18] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

19] Respect is greater from a distance

20] He who wills the end, Wills the means

21] Virtue carries a lean purse

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

23] Delay is the antidote of anger

24] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

25] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

26] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

27] Asking costs little

28] Excessive happiness produces pain

29] Talk much end err much

30] A constant guest is never welcome

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

32] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

33] True doctrines require no miracles

34] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

35] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

36] In everything consider the end

37] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

38] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

39] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

40] In doing we learn.

41] Rich folk have many friends

42] One man sows and another reaps

43] More have repented speech than silence

44] Ill news comes apace.

45] Sweet are the uses of adversity

46] Small is beautiful

47] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

48] He that promises too much means nothing

49] The child is father of the man

50] Care brings grey hair.

51] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

52] Give a loan and buy quarrel

53] The greatest step is that out of doors

54] Like will to like

55] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

56] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

57] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

58] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

59] Love can find a way

60] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

61] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

62] Fortune is blind

63] There are more ways to the wood than one.

64] Help a lame dog over a stile

65] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

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

67] Numbers overcome the brave

68] A good garden may have some ill weeds

69] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

70] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

71] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

72] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

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

74] Wrong never comes right

75] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

76] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

77] Hunger is the teacher of many

78] Despair gives courage to a coward

79] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

80] Through obedience learn to command.

81] Never refuse a good offer

82] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

83] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

84] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

85] There is no garden without its weeds

86] Who suffers much is silent

87] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

88] Easier said than done

89] Every why has a wherefore

90] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

91] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

92] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

93] Silence is a woman’s best garment

94] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

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

96] To err is human; to forgive, divine

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

98] You can’t clap with one hand

99] What is worth doing is worth doing well

100] Forecast is better than work-hard