Famous Proverbs

1] He who wills the end, Wills the means

2] The dog that fetches, will carry.

3] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

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

5] Expectation is better than realisation

6] The course of true love never did run smooth

7] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

8] Ill news comes unsent for.

9] Four eyes see better than two.

10] Morning dreams come true

11] Her that is down need fear no fall

12] Money talks

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

14] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

15] Virtue joints man to god

16] A good Conscience is the best divinity

17] A good dog deserves a good bone

18] Do as say, not as I do

19] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

20] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

21] He who does no good, does evil enough

22] Through obedience learn to command.

23] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

24] Talk much end err much

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

26] Don’t cry for the moon

27] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

28] A single rose does not mean spring

29] That which proves too much proves nothing

30] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

31] An ill tongue may do much

32] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

33] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

34] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

35] Wrong has no warrant

36] You cannot make bricks without straw

37] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

38] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

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

40] Don’t tell tales out of school

41] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

42] You can’t win them all

43] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

44] True gold is not transformed by fire

45] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

46] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

47] Things are only worth one makes them worth

48] Loyalty is worth more than money

49] He mediates revenge who least complains.

50] Misfortunes never come singly

51] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

52] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

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

54] 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

55] Let the buyer beware

56] No good building without a good foundation.

57] God helps those who help themselves

58] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

59] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

60] Plain dealing is best

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

62] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

63] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

64] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

65] Every man must carry his own cross

66] Prevention is better than cure

67] Extremes are dangerous

68] A true friend is forever a friend

69] Wisdom is better than strength

70] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

71] A good husband makes a good wife

72] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

73] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

74] The best things carried to excess are wrong

75] All’s well that ends well

76] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

77] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

78] An angry man is not fit to pray

79] Barking dogs seldom bite

80] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

81] Cowards die many times before their deaths

82] Bold men have generous hearts

83] Patience is a virtue

84] Virtue carries a lean purse

85] Safety lies in the middle course

86] Good luck beats early rising

87] Better never begin than never make an end

88] A goose drinks as much as gander

89] One today is worth two tomorrows

90] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

91] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

92] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

93] The wisest of the wise may err.

94] Long looked for, comes at last

95] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

96] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

97] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

98] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

99] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

100] Fingers were made before forks