Famous Proverbs

1] A knave and a fool never take thought

2] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

3] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

4] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

5] Where there is no trust there is no love

6] Barking dogs seldom bite

7] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

8] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

9] Wrong never comes right

10] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

11] Hitch your wagon to a star

12] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

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

14] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

15] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

16] Death keeps no calendar

17] He who pays the piper calls the tune

18] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

19] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

20] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

21] Health is not value till sickness comes

22] What the king wills, that the law wills

23] It is too late to call back yesterday

24] One lie makes many

25] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

26] There is a great difference between words and deeds

27] There’s a black sheep in every flock

28] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

29] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

30] Distance lends enchantment to the view

31] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

32] Every Jack must have his Jill

33] Bad news travels fast

34] Union (or Unity) is strength

35] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

36] Rats know the ways of rats

37] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

38] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

39] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

40] Where there is whispering there is lying

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

42] Grief pent up will break the heart

43] He who serves is not free

44] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

45] A good lather is half the shave

46] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

47] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

48] Honest is the best policy

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

50] Give and spend, and God will send

51] A good lawyer must be a great liar

52] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

53] Poverty is no sin

54] Without diligence, no prize

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

56] Easier said than done

57] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

58] Like breeds like

59] Old foxes want no tutors

60] One must be a servant before one can be a master

61] Fortune favours fools

62] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

63] A mouse may help a lion

64] Slow help is no help

65] He who envies admits his inferiority

66] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

67] Wishes can never fill a sack

68] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

69] Never grieve for what you cannot help

70] He who considers too much will perform little.

71] Money can influence even the spirits

72] Nearest the heart comes out first

73] Tell a lie and stick to it.

74] He that is born a fool is never cured

75] Home is home though it be never so homely

76] First thrive then wive

77] The best things in life are free

78] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

79] To err is human

80] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

81] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

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

83] Will is no skill

84] Mere wishes are silly fishes

85] Anything will fit a naked man.

86] A cat has nine lives

87] The course of true love never did run smooth

88] Dogs bark as they are bred.

89] Knowledge is power

90] It is good to follow the old fox

91] After a storm comes a calm

92] The sign brings customers

93] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

94] Grasp all, lose all

95] Poverty is no sin

96] Like will to like

97] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

98] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

99] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

100] The course of true love never did run smooth