Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

2] Actions speak louder than words

3] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

4] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

5] First impressions are most lasting

6] Fools rejoice at promises

7] A good wife is a good prize

8] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

9] He who hesitates is lost

10] Love cannot be compelled

11] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

12] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

13] Still waters run deep

14] The golden age was never the present age

15] Example is better than precept

16] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

17] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

18] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

19] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

20] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

21] Revenge never repairs an injury

22] Better unborn than untaught

23] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

24] Where god will help, nothing does harm

25] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

26] Past cure, past care

27] Never spend your money before you have it

28] Who greases his way travels easily

29] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

30] Save your breath to cool the porridge

31] As you bake, so shall you eat.

32] Handsome is as handsome does

33] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

34] A miss is as good as a mile

35] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

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

37] Words bind men

38] A good heart cannot lie.

39] Exchange is no robbery

40] Nothing is so certain as death

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

42] Live and let live

43] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

44] The belly carries the legs

45] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

46] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

47] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

48] God provides for him that trusts

49] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

50] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

51] Prove your friend ere you have need

52] Ill news comes unsent for.

53] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

54] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

55] No honest man ever repented his honesty

56] There is truth in wine

57] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

58] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

59] Standing pools gather fifth

60] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

61] The Pen is mightier than the sword

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

63] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

64] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

65] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

66] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

67] No misfortune will go on forever

68] A jest breaks no bones

69] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

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

71] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

72] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

73] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

74] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

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

76] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

77] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

78] The bull must be taken by the horns

79] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

80] Children should be seen and not heard

81] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

82] Many a true word is spoken in jest

83] Good counsel never comes amiss

84] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

85] Dreams go by contraries

86] Wine is the best broom for trouble

87] One cannot love and be wise

88] Take things as they come

89] Abundance, like want, ruins many

90] Water is the king of food

91] Do not triumph before the victory

92] A heavy purse makes a light heart

93] First creep, then walk

94] Desires are nourished by delays

95] Good broth may be made in an old pot

96] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

97] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

98] Better eye sore than al blind

99] Saying is one thing, and doing another

100] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.