Famous Proverbs

1] One must howl with the wolves

2] He knows which side his bread is buttered

3] Experience must be bought

4] Ready money is a ready remedy

5] Dying men speak true

6] Look at the bright side

7] Homer sometimes nods

8] There are two sides to every question

9] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

10] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

11] He that is down need fear no fall

12] He who serves is not free

13] He who has seen little marvels much

14] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

15] Wisdom is better than strength

16] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

17] Adventures are to be adventurous

18] He that repairs not a part, builds all

19] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

20] He who comes late must eat what is left

21] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

22] A woman’s work is never done

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

24] Work expands so as to fill the time available

25] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

26] New meat begets a new appetite

27] In the land of hope there is never any winter

28] If you would be well served, serve yourself

29] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

30] Better an open enemy than a false friend

31] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

32] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

33] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

34] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

35] A jest breaks no bones

36] Health is great riches

37] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

38] One may change the place but not the mind.

39] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

40] Good broth may be made in an old pot

41] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

42] Better bend than break

43] The fairest silk is soonest stained

44] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

45] Hasty work, double work,

46] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

47] Hope keeps man alive

48] Give and spend, and God will send

49] Love can find a way

50] Friendship should not be all on one side

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

52] The poor suffer all the wrong

53] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

54] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

55] Half a loaf is better than do bread

56] He who excuses himself accuses himself

57] Never too late to late to repent

58] Waste makes wants

59] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

60] Once a use and ever a custom

61] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

62] His bark is worse than his bite

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

64] Where there is peace, there is blessing

65] Great trees keep down the little ones

66] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

67] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

68] Money is power

69] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

70] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

71] The early man ever borrows from the late man

72] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

73] Praise no man till he is dead.

74] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

75] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

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

77] That which proves too much proves nothing

78] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

79] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

80] As soon as there is life there is danger

81] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

82] Diamond cuts diamond

83] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

84] The good die young.

85] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

86] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

87] There’s no place like home

88] Quickly come, quickly go

89] Wash your dirty linen at home

90] A hungry man smells meat afar off

91] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

92] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

93] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

94] Do it now

95] Young colts will canter.

96] Dog does not eat dog

97] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

98] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

99] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

100] Young colts will canter.