Famous Proverbs

1] The mob has many heads but no brains

2] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

3] The good die young.

4] There’s always room at the top

5] He has not lost all who has one cast left

6] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

7] Time and tide wait for no man

8] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

9] It takes a wise man to be a fool

10] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

11] Anger without power is folly

12] Desire beautifies what is ugly

13] A good conscience is a constant feast

14] The best things are hard to come by.

15] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

16] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

17] Virtue carries a lean purse

18] Money is the sinew of affairs

19] Hope often deludes the foolish man

20] Things past cannot be recalled

21] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

22] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

23] All heiresses are beautiful.

24] Better the foot slip than the tongue

25] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

26] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

27] Delay is the antidote of anger

28] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

29] A rolling stone gathers no moss

30] Every man praises his own wares

31] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

32] The fairest silk is soonest stained

33] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

34] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

35] Other times, other manners

36] Ready money is ready medicine

37] None so deaf as those that will not hear

38] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

39] One sheep follows another

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

41] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

42] Many doctors, death accomplished

43] Beauty opens locked doors

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

45] Beware of a silent man and still water

46] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

47] Union (or Unity) is strength

48] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

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

50] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

51] Don’t cry before you are hurt

52] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

53] A crust is better than no bread.

54] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

55] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

56] Don’t take your harp to the party

57] Poor folk fare the best

58] Every oak has been an acorn

59] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

60] The first blow is half the battle

61] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

62] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

63] A monk can’t shave his own head

64] A good example is the best sermon

65] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

66] No sweet without sweat

67] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

68] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

69] Beauty is only skin deep

70] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

71] Better late than never, but better never late

72] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

73] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

74] Good is good but better carries it

75] Birds once snared fear all bushes

76] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

77] What is worth doing is worth doing well

78] Will is the cause of woe

79] Love can find a way

80] He is rich that has few wants

81] The absent saint gets no candle

82] Goodness is better than beauty

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

84] After the extreme of cold comes spring

85] Open a book and you profit by what you read

86] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

87] It takes all sorts to make a world

88] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

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

90] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

91] Crime does not pay

92] Dead men don’t bite

93] One foot is better than two crutches

94] Live and let live

95] Needs must when the devil drives

96] Like father, like son

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

98] Dog does not eat dog

99] For a web begun, God sends the thread

100] There is nothing like being on the safe side