Famous Proverbs

1] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

2] You win some, you lose some

3] Don’t try to run before you walk

4] Little wealth, little care

5] Dead dogs bark not

6] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

7] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

8] Of evil manners, spring good laws

9] Debt is an evil conscience

10] Ill news comes unsent for.

11] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

12] A man may bear till his back breaks

13] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

14] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

15] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

16] Spend and be free, but make no waste

17] Youth will have its course.

18] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

19] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

20] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

21] Fine words dress ill deeds

22] Half a loaf is better than do bread

23] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

24] Wedlock is padlock

25] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

26] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

27] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

28] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

29] There is no accounting for tastes

30] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

31] A rolling stone gathers no moss

32] The world is full of fools

33] Every dog has his day

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

35] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

36] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

37] Good counsel never comes amiss

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

39] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

40] A still tongue makes a wise head

41] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

42] A true friend is forever a friend

43] No man so good but another may be as good as he

44] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

45] Good to begin well, better to end well.

46] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

47] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

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

49] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

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

51] Needs must when the devil drives

52] Money makes the man

53] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

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

55] Jack is as good as his master

56] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

57] The belly carries the legs

58] A goose drinks as much as gander

59] First impressions are the most lasting

60] Hard cases make bad law

61] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

62] Forecast is better than work-hard

63] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

64] He that is absent is soon forgotten

65] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

66] Familiarity breeds contempt

67] Prevention is better than cure

68] Fair face, foul heart

69] A learned man has always riches in himself

70] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

71] Quickly come, quickly go

72] Health and money go far

73] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

74] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

75] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

76] A little impatience will spoil great plans

77] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

78] Good fences make good neighbours

79] Necessity is the mother of invention

80] Do not kick against the pricks

81] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

82] Set a thief to catch a thief

83] Soon hot, soon cold

84] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

85] Life is not all beer and skittles

86] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

87] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

88] One hand washes the other

89] Man proposes, God disposes

90] A rich man can do nothing wrong

91] Divine grace was never slow

92] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

93] It’s a long lane that has no turning

94] Never refuse a good offer

95] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

96] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

97] An open door may tempt a saint

98] The last suitor wins the maid

99] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

100] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice