Famous Proverbs

1] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

2] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

3] Cheap is dear in the long run.

4] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

5] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

6] When meat is in anger is out

7] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

8] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

9] Even a worm will turn

10] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

11] Words bind men

12] The early man ever borrows from the late man

13] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

14] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

15] There is no smoke without fire

16] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

17] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

18] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

19] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

20] Common fame is seldom to blame

21] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

22] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

23] Money talks

24] Patience is a plaster for all sores

25] There is safety in numbers

26] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

27] The thing which is rare is dear

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

29] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

30] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

31] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

32] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

33] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

34] It is more pain to do nothing than something

35] High places have their precipices

36] Envy never enriched any man.

37] A good name is better than a golden girdle

38] Do not wear out your welcome

39] Money has no smell

40] The first blow is half the battle

41] Common fame is seldom to blame

42] Erring is not heating

43] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

44] He that speaks not, God hears not

45] No tie can oblige the perfidious

46] Even reckoning makes long friends

47] Far from eye, far from heart

48] A crowd is not company

49] Hard cases make bad law

50] Every groom is a king at home

51] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

52] Take things as you find them

53] Alms never make poor

54] Ill news comes unsent for.

55] To err is human; to forgive, divine

56] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

57] Be just before you are generous

58] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

59] It is best to be on the safe side

60] The best things are hard to come by.

61] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

62] Patience is a virtue

63] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

64] Money is the sinews of war

65] Every oak has been an acorn

66] Extremes meet

67] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

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

69] Set a thief to catch a thief

70] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

71] Let the buyer beware

72] Might knows no right

73] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

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

75] There is no place like home

76] Patient men with the day.

77] First impressions are most lasting

78] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

79] The receiver is as bad as the thief

80] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

81] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

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

83] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

84] Easier said than done

85] A good lather is half the shave

86] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

87] It is never too late to mend

88] The race is got by running

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

90] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

91] It is useless to flog a dead horse

92] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

93] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

94] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

95] A good garden may have some ill weeds

96] Every flow must have its ebb

97] Crust is better than no bread

98] Look before you leap

99] Dirty linen should be washed at home

100] It is not every question that deserves an answer