Famous Proverbs

1] Time has wings

2] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

3] One barber shaves another gratis

4] Love will go through stone walls

5] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

6] The race is got by running

7] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

8] Do right and fear no man

9] Kindness lies in one side of the house

10] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

11] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

12] He that desires but little has no deed of much

13] Despair gives courage to a coward

14] The devil looks after his own

15] The value of money is having it.

16] Virtue joints man to god

17] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

18] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

19] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

20] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

21] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

22] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

23] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

24] Of evil manners, spring good laws

25] No convenience without its inconvenience

26] No one betrays himself by silence

27] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

28] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

29] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

30] Men do more things through habit than reason

31] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

32] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

33] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

34] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

35] If the cap fits, wear it

36] Let not your tongue run at rover

37] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

38] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

39] Let the buyer beware

40] Muck and money go together

41] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

42] In indecision itself, grief is present.

43] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

44] A good drink makes the old young

45] What may be done at any time is done at no time

46] More than enough is too much

47] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

48] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

49] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

50] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

51] First impressions are half the battle

52] Books and friends should be few but good

53] Where there is no trust there is no love

54] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

55] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

56] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

57] Diligence is the mother of good luck

58] Money is the sinew of affairs

59] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

60] Lookers-on see most of the game

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

62] Grin and bear it

63] Good is good but better carries it

64] Flesh is frail

65] Precept begins, examples accomplish

66] Ill news comes apace.

67] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

68] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

69] None can guess the jewel by the casket

70] Rust wastes more than use

71] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

72] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

73] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

74] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

75] Things are only worth one makes them worth

76] You cannot have your cake and eat it

77] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

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

79] Penny wise, pound foolish

80] Love knows hidden paths

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

82] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

83] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

84] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

85] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

86] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

87] Fortune favours fools

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

89] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

90] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

91] Easier said than done

92] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

93] A loveless life is a living death

94] All things are easy, that are done willingly

95] It is not every question that deserves an answer

96] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

97] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

98] He that speaks well, flights well

99] New things are fair

100] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden