Famous Proverbs

1] The longest day must have an end

2] A good name is better than a golden girdle

3] Great hopes make great men

4] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

5] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

6] A good name is sooner lost than won

7] Nothing seek, nothing find

8] Every bean has its black

9] Silence is a woman’s best garment

10] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

11] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

12] A strong town is not won in an hour

13] Let the buyer beware

14] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

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

16] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

17] The wish is father to the thought

18] A word to the wise is enough

19] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

20] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

21] Better to wear out than rust out

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

23] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

24] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

25] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

26] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

27] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

28] All’s fair in love and war

29] Spread the table, and contention will cease

30] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

31] Have two strings to your bow

32] Fool’s haste is no speed

33] You may know by a handful the whole sack

34] He that wants health wants all

35] Care brings grey hair.

36] Kingdoms divided soon fall

37] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

38] Honesty is the best policy

39] Full of courtesy, full of craft

40] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

41] If one will not, another will

42] Nature does nothing in vain

43] You can’t tell a book by its cover

44] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

45] He that has an ill name is half hanged

46] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

47] What the king wills, that the law wills

48] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

49] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

50] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

51] Kill two birds with one stone

52] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

53] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

54] Ill luck is good for something

55] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

56] A word before is worth two behind

57] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

58] Exchange is no robbery

59] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

60] It is good fishing in troubled waters

61] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

62] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

63] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

64] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

65] There is no smoke without fire

66] No man is content with his lot

67] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

68] The weeds overgrow the corn.

69] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

70] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

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

72] Variety is charming

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

74] Better to wear out than rust out

75] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

76] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

77] Everything comes to him who waits

78] A little learning is dangerous thing

79] Variety takes away satiety

80] Better the last smile than the first laugh

81] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

82] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

83] The slowest barker is the surest biter

84] In doing we learn.

85] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

86] A wicked man is his own hell

87] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

88] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

89] Much babbling is not without offence

90] Better an open enemy than a false friend

91] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

92] Go not to hell for company

93] Forecast is better than work-hard

94] Ignorance is the peace of life

95] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

96] Where god will help, nothing does harm

97] A good paymaster needs no surety

98] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

99] No misfortune will go on forever

100] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers