Famous Proverbs

1] Handsome is as handsome does

2] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

3] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

4] No remedy but patience

5] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

6] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

7] One reason is as good as fifty

8] Mirth is the sugar of life

9] First impressions are half the battle

10] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

11] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

12] Let not your tongue run at rover

13] Love is sweet torment

14] Love me, love the crows on my roof

15] Misery loves company.

16] Asking costs little

17] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

18] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

19] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

20] Lavishness is not generosity

21] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

22] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

23] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

24] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

25] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

26] Friendship should not be all on one

27] Wash your dirty linen at home

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

29] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

30] Beauty draws more than oxen

31] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

32] The devil dances in an empty pocket

33] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

34] Hope is the poor man’s bread

35] Every cloud has a silver lining

36] A hungry man smells meat afar off

37] Everything is good in its season

38] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

39] Poverty parts friendship

40] There is no rose without a thorn

41] Change of pasture makes fat calves

42] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

43] New meat begets a new appetite

44] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

45] Praise no man till he is dead.

46] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

47] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

48] Love conquers all

49] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

50] Youth will have its course.

51] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

52] Empty vessels make the most sound

53] If the cap fits, wear it

54] You can’t clap with one hand

55] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

56] Tigers and deer do not over.

57] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

58] Go while the going is good

59] It takes all sorts to make a world

60] He that is absent is soon forgotten

61] Two wrongs do not make a right

62] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

63] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

64] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

65] They say so’ is half a lie

66] It is no use crying over spilt milk

67] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

68] Without luck, it is better not to be born

69] Needs must when the evil drives

70] He that lives ill, fear follows him

71] The axe falls on a straight tree first

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

73] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

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

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

76] All covet all lose.

77] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

78] One man’s loss is another’s gain

79] An honest good look covers many faults.

80] All for one, and one for all.

81] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

82] One lie makes many

83] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

84] Patient waiters are no losers

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

86] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

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

88] Sorrow will pay no debt

89] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

90] It is the unexpected that always happens

91] He that speaks not, God hears not

92] Virtue has all things in itself

93] The result justifies the deed

94] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

95] Don’t play with fire

96] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

97] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

98] Each day brings its own bread

99] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

100] The exception proves the rule