Famous Proverbs

1] Health is great riches

2] Poverty is the mother of crime

3] The love of money is the root of all evil

4] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

5] It is a shame to be shameless

6] All doors open to courtesy

7] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

8] Money is the only monarch

9] The mob tramples on the coward

10] There is no smoke without fire

11] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

12] Forecast is better than work-hard

13] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

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

15] Adam’s ale is the best brew

16] When meat is in anger is out

17] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

18] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

19] Speech is silver, silence is golden

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

21] There is no redemption from hell

22] We soon believe what we desire

23] It is easier to pull down than to build

24] Homo is a common name to all men.

25] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

26] Boys will be boys

27] Nature surpasses art

28] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

29] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

30] There are spots even in the sun

31] Men are blind in their own cause

32] It is not work that kills but worry

33] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

34] Fear of death is worse than death itself

35] We don’t get something for nothing

36] Ready money is a ready remedy

37] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

38] Weak things united become strong

39] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

40] Good counsel never comes amiss

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

42] God sends cold after Clothes

43] He is wise who looks ahead

44] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

45] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

46] One good turn deserves another

47] He who excuses himself accuses himself

48] A man may bear till his back breaks

49] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

50] A mouse may help a lion

51] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

52] A soft answer turns away wrath

53] Better children weep than old men

54] By his deeds we know a man

55] The more you get, the more you want

56] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

57] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

58] He is rich that has few wants

59] Laughter makes good blood

60] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

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

62] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

63] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

64] Familiarity breeds contempt

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

66] The fox may grow grey, but never good

67] Better late than never

68] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

69] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

70] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

71] Step by step the ladder is ascended

72] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

73] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

74] Take the will for the deed

75] A constant guest is never welcome

76] The cowl does not make the monk.

77] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

78] Fair without, false within

79] Love cannot be compelled

80] All lay loads on a willing horse

81] Strike while the iron is hot

82] Better to be safe than sorry.

83] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

84] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

85] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

86] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

87] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

88] Half a loaf is better than do bread

89] One hand washes the other

90] Words bind men

91] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

92] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

93] Kill two birds with one stone

94] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

95] Time has wings

96] A hungry man smells meat afar off

97] The great fish eat up the small

98] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

99] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

100] Hunger is the teacher of many