Famous Proverbs

1] Charity begins at home.

2] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

3] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

4] There is no accounting for tastes

5] Never too late to late to repent

6] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

7] Hunger is the teacher of many

8] He that promises too much means nothing

9] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

10] First impressions are half the battle

11] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

12] Children and chickens must be always picking

13] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

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

15] Other times, other manners

16] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

17] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

18] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

19] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

20] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

21] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

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

23] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

24] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

25] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

26] There is nothing like being on the safe side

27] Silence never makes mistakes

28] Wise men silent, fools talk

29] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

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

31] What’s done is done

32] Despair gives courage to a coward

33] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

34] Not even Hercules could contend against two

35] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

36] Virtue carries a lean purse

37] Long absent, soon forgotten

38] Love cannot be compelled

39] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

40] Hope keeps man alive

41] Pleasing ware is half sold

42] A man in debt is caught in a net

43] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

44] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

45] What must be must be

46] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

47] Youth will have its course.

48] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

49] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

50] That which Nature paints never fades

51] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

52] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

53] Every flow must have its ebb

54] Hope is grief’s best music

55] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

56] Praises fill not the belly

57] Love conquers all

58] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

59] Time lost cannot be recalled

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

61] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

62] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

63] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

64] Many dishes make many diseases

65] You cannot have it both ways

66] One cannot put back the clock

67] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

68] A little is better than none

69] More haste, less speed

70] Great gain makes easy work

71] Least said, soonest mended

72] Evil to him who evil thinks.

73] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

74] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

75] Do not kick against the pricks

76] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

77] What is worth doing is worth doing well

78] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

79] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

80] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

81] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

82] The lion had need of the mouse

83] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

84] Good ware makes quick market

85] Experience must be bought

86] If anything can go wrong, it will

87] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

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

89] Nature abhors a vacuum

90] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

91] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

92] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

93] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

94] A beggar can never be bankrupt

95] Error cannot be defended but by error

96] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

97] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

98] No sweet without sweat

99] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

100] A living dog is better than a dead lion