Famous Proverbs

1] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

2] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

3] Of evil manners, spring good laws

4] Love is without reason

5] One fool praises another

6] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

7] A good husband makes a good wife

8] Good is good but better carries it

9] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

10] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

11] Revenge never repairs an injury

12] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

13] Best is cheapest

14] Long absent, soon forgotten

15] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

16] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

17] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

18] Custom reconciles us to everything

19] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

20] A rich man’s joke is always funny

21] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

22] Lavishness is not generosity

23] Every bean has its black

24] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

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

26] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

27] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

28] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

29] Full of courtesy, full of craft

30] That which proves too much proves nothing

31] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

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

33] Spare the rod and spoil the child

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

35] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

36] They also serve who only stand and wait

37] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

38] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

39] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

40] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

41] Speech is silver, silence is golden

42] Fair without, false within

43] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

44] What is worse than ill luck?

45] The best is often the enemy of the good

46] Threatened folk live long

47] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

48] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

49] History repeats itself

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

51] Great actions speak minds

52] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

53] Discontent is the first step in progress

54] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

55] Possibilities are infinite

56] Poverty is not a crime

57] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

58] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

59] Health and wealth create beauty

60] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

61] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

62] Between two stools you fall to the ground

63] Better beg than steal.

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

65] Almost’ never killed a fly.

66] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

67] Jack is as good as his master

68] Example, is better than precept

69] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

70] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

71] Good hand, good hire

72] The best things carried to excess are wrong

73] Hope is grief’s best music

74] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

75] Nature is content with little.

76] A stitch in time saves nine

77] Alms never make poor

78] Creditors have better memories than debtors

79] In my own house, I am king

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

81] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

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

83] In haste is error

84] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

85] Fine words dress ill deeds

86] Example is better than precept

87] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

88] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

89] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

90] Money is the only monarch

91] Good to begin well, better to end well.

92] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

93] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

94] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

95] What is deferred is not abandoned

96] Set a thief to catch a thief

97] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

98] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

99] One hand washes the other

100] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.