Famous Proverbs

1] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

2] Virtue joints man to god

3] It is too late to husband when all is spent

4] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

5] Don’t try to run before you walk

6] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

7] Men are blind in their own cause

8] All heiresses are beautiful.

9] All our pomp the earth covers

10] Use makes mastery

11] Common fame is seldom to blame

12] Fools grow without watering.

13] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

14] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

15] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

16] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

17] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

18] To err is human; to forgive, divine

19] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

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

21] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

22] Covetousness brings nothing home

23] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

24] Who greases his way travels easily

25] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

26] Advise none to marry or to go to war

27] A house divided against itself cannot stand

28] Poverty parts friendship

29] Virtue is its own reward

30] Might is right

31] We live laws, not by examples

32] You never know what you can do till you try

33] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

34] A good payer is master of another’s purse

35] The good is often the enemy of the best

36] Threatened folk live long

37] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

38] Money has no smell

39] Every bean has its black

40] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

41] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

42] Every Jack must have his Jill

43] It is best to be on the safe side

44] You never know your luck

45] There is no tree but bears some fruit

46] One must be a servant before one can be a master

47] The best is often the enemy of the good

48] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

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

50] What can’t be cured must be endured

51] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

52] The more laws, the more offenders

53] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

54] All good things must come to an end

55] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

56] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

57] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

58] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

59] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

60] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

61] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

62] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

63] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

64] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

65] The end makes all equal

66] Nearest the heart comes out first

67] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

68] A closed mouth catches no files

69] There’s always room at the top

70] The darkest place is under the candlestick

71] What may be done at any time is done at no time

72] Don’t tell tales out of school

73] Death does not recognize strength

74] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

75] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

76] Man cannot live by bread alone

77] A man with no hands is given a ring.

78] He conquers who endures

79] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

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

81] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

82] They are rich who have true friends

83] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

84] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

85] Error cannot be defended but by error

86] There’s always room at the top

87] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

88] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

89] Cleanliness is next to godliness

90] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

91] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

92] Fair without, false within

93] Experience is good if not bought too dear

94] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

95] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

96] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

97] Moderation in all things

98] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

99] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

100] A house divided against itself cannot stand