Famous Proverbs

1] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

2] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

3] A good beginning makes a good ending.

4] Experience must be bought

5] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

6] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

7] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

8] When meat is in anger is out

9] Adventures are to be adventurous

10] He that has an ill name is half hanged

11] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

12] Health and money go far

13] A parrot will only say what it is taught

14] A good lather is half the shave

15] Help a lame dog over a stile

16] Slow but sure wins the race

17] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

18] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

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

20] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

21] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

22] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

23] A still tongue makes a wise head

24] Nature will have her course

25] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

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

27] The greatest talkers are the least doers

28] Much learning makes men mad

29] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

30] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

31] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

32] Nothing seek, nothing find

33] Come with the wind, got with the water

34] A heavy purse makes a light heart

35] There is a great difference between words and deeds

36] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

37] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

38] Penny wise, pound foolish

39] They that dance must pay the fiddler

40] No cross, no crown

41] Numbers overcome the brave

42] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

43] Idle folks have the least leisure

44] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

45] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

46] Time has wings

47] He who hesitates is lost

48] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

49] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

50] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

51] A good face is a letter of recommendation

52] Everything must have a beginning

53] Good hand, good hire

54] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

55] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

56] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

57] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

58] Desert and reward seldom keep company

59] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

60] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

61] Failure teaches success

62] Better a bare foot than none

63] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

64] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

65] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

66] Full of courtesy, full of craft

67] A scalded cat fears hot water.

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

69] Good words are worth much and cost little

70] Best is cheapest

71] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

72] Nature surpasses art

73] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

74] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

75] One hand washes the other

76] He that eats least eats most

77] Who greases his way travels easily

78] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

79] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

80] Waste makes wants

81] Learn to walk before you run

82] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

83] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

84] He stands not surely that never slips

85] More haste, less speed

86] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

87] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

88] Marriages are made in heaven

89] The first blow is half the battle

90] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

91] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

92] Delay is the antidote of anger

93] The goat must browse where she is tied

94] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

95] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

96] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

97] A cat may look at a king

98] Eat to live and not live to eat.

99] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

100] No man is infallible