Famous Proverbs

1] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

2] Hitch your wagon to a star

3] What’s in a name?

4] Charity excuseth not cheating.

5] Idle folks lack no excuses

6] Familiarity breeds contempt

7] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

8] No garden without its weeds.

9] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

10] A door must be either shut or open

11] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

12] Tomorrow never comes

13] Idle folks lack no excuses

14] Misfortune makes foes of friends

15] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

16] An Englishman’s home is his castle

17] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

18] He that burns most, shines most

19] A bad workman always blames his tools

20] A man’s wealth is his enemy

21] A gift much expected is paid, not given

22] All things are easy, that are done willingly

23] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

24] Many drops make a shower

25] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

26] Vice makes virtue shine

27] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

28] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

29] Safety lies in the middle course

30] Necessity is mother of invention

31] Ready money is ready medicine

32] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

33] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

34] Possibilities are infinite

35] Better be alone than in bad company

36] Do not limp before the lame

37] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

38] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

39] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

40] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

41] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

42] Hope often deludes the foolish man

43] The righteous man sins before an open chest

44] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

45] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

46] Men are not angles

47] Love laughs at locksmiths

48] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

49] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

50] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

51] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

52] When the word is out it belongs to another

53] Take away fuel, take away flame

54] Anger without power is folly

55] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

56] The sign brings customers

57] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

58] Better eye sore than al blind

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

60] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

61] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

62] None so deaf as those that will not hear

63] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

64] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

65] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

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

67] In indecision itself, grief is present.

68] Praises fill not the belly

69] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

70] He that is down need fear no fall

71] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

72] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

73] He that promises too much means nothing

74] Gossiping and lying go together

75] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

76] Honest is the best policy

77] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

78] The thread breaks where it is weakest

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

80] No man is wise at all times

81] Live not to eat, but eat to live

82] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

83] The best go first

84] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

85] He who has seen little marvels much

86] The longest journey starts with a single step

87] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

88] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

89] Abundance, like want, ruins many

90] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

91] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

92] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

93] A great city, a great solitude

94] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

95] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

96] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

97] Example is the greatest of all seducers

98] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

99] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

100] If you have known one, you have known them all