Famous Proverbs

1] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

2] It is more blessed to give than to receive

3] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

4] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

5] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

6] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

7] There is safety in numbers

8] A watched pot never boils

9] It is too late to look up after you have collided

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

11] Do as say, not as I do

12] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

13] A fault confessed is half redressed

14] A knave and a fool never take thought

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

16] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

17] He who last, laughs longest.

18] He that praises himself, spatters himself

19] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

20] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

21] Seeing is believing

22] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

23] Well begun is half done.

24] A man’s studies pass in to his character

25] The falling drops hollow the stone

26] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

27] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

28] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

29] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

30] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

31] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

32] Asking costs little

33] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

34] Hunger is the best sauce

35] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

36] It is ill jesting with edged tools

37] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

38] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

39] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

40] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

41] The devil is not as black as he is painted

42] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

43] It is a great victory that comes without blood

44] Success has many friends

45] Nearest the heart comes out first

46] He that has no shame has no conscience

47] In the land of hope there is never any winter

48] Too long burden makes weary bones

49] All glory comes from daring to begin

50] Young saint, old devil.

51] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

52] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

53] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

54] He who comes first, grinds first.

55] Manners and money make a gentleman

56] The world is full of fools

57] Be careful to whom you give

58] Virtue carries a lean purse

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

60] A rich man’s joke is always funny

61] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

62] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

63] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

64] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

65] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

66] Without diligence, no prize

67] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

68] The money you refuse will never do you good

69] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

70] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

71] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

72] Diligence is the mother of good luck

73] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

74] Children and fools cannot lie.

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

76] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

77] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

78] Bear with evil and expect good

79] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

80] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

81] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

82] A goose drinks as much as gander

83] Haste is of (or from) the devil

84] White there’s life there’s hope

85] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

86] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

87] The good intention excuses the bad action

88] Don’t cry for the moon

89] A good wife is a good prize

90] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

91] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

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

93] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

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

95] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

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

97] A fault once denied is twice committed

98] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

99] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

100] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth