Famous Proverbs

1] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

2] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

3] Experience is the best teacher

4] Fair without, false within

5] No man is indispensable

6] No land without stones, or meat without bones

7] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

8] Money isn’t everything

9] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

10] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

11] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

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

13] Never spur a willing horse

14] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

15] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

16] Crowns have cares

17] Love cannot be compelled

18] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

19] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

20] Safety lies in the middle course

21] Two heads are better than one

22] The greatest talkers are the least doers

23] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

24] He who excuses himself accuses himself

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

26] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

27] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

28] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

29] Brevity is the soul of wit

30] One swallow does not make a summer

31] He that brings good news, knocks hard

32] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

33] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

34] Excessive happiness produces pain

35] No man is content with his lot

36] He who comes first, grinds first.

37] The ass that brays most eats

38] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

39] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

40] Now is now, and then was then

41] The first blow is half the battle

42] Judge not the tree by its bark

43] Black will take no other hue

44] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

45] A stitch in time saves nine

46] Fingers were made before forks

47] A change is as good as rest

48] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

49] Pitchers have ears

50] Misfortunes never come singly

51] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

52] What cannot gold do?

53] There is no tree but bears some fruit

54] Ambition loses many a man

55] The tongue talks at the heads cost

56] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

57] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

58] After the extreme of cold comes spring

59] Of evil manners, spring good laws

60] Man proposes, God disposes

61] Love is blind

62] Experience is good if not bought too dear

63] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

64] The best of men are but men at best.

65] Content is more than a kingdom

66] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

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

68] Frugality is the mother of virtue

69] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

70] Good ware makes quick market

71] Fine feathers make fine birds.

72] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

73] Let sleeping dogs lie

74] Anything will fit a naked man.

75] Time flees without a delay

76] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

77] In peace, prepare for war

78] Don’t play with edged tools

79] Slow help is no help

80] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

81] As you brew, so shall you drink.

82] Quickly come, quickly go

83] Ambition loses many a man

84] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

85] Gold may be bought too dear

86] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

87] No pain, no cure

88] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

89] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

90] All are not saints that go to church

91] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

92] You are never too old to learn

93] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

94] The end crowns the work.

95] No man limps because another is hurt

96] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

97] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

98] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

99] Charity excuseth not cheating.

100] To forget a wrong is the best revenge