Famous Proverbs

1] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

2] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

3] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

4] Delay is the antidote of anger

5] Nearest the heart comes out first

6] Advise none to marry or to go to war

7] Facts are stubborn things

8] He thinks not well that thinks not again

9] Four eyes see better than two.

10] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

11] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

12] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

13] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

14] Desire beautifies what is ugly

15] In my own house, I am king

16] Cleanliness is next to godliness

17] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

18] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

19] Half a loaf is better than do bread

20] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

21] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

22] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

23] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

24] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

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

26] A man of courage never wants weapons

27] Example is better than precept

28] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

29] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

30] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

31] There’s always room at the top

32] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

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

34] Honour is the reward of virtue

35] Good clothes open all doors

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

37] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

38] A fool may give a wise man counsel

39] Covetousness breaks the sack

40] Common fame is a liar

41] Lookers-on see most of the game

42] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

43] The best things in life are free

44] The more cost, the more honour

45] Dying men speak true

46] The child is father of the man

47] More have repented speech than silence

48] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

49] He is an ill husband who is not missed

50] True doctrines require no miracles

51] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

52] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

53] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

54] Leave well alone

55] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

56] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

57] Good fame is better than a good face

58] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

59] Each day brings its own bread

60] His own ingenuity pricks him.

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

62] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

63] Alms never make poor

64] To teach is to learn twice over

65] He knows the water best who has waded through it

66] An honest good look covers many faults.

67] Safety lies in the middle course

68] All for one, and one for all.

69] He that will thrive must rise at five

70] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

71] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

72] Art improves Nature

73] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

74] Patience surpasses learning

75] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

76] Home is home though it be never so homely

77] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

78] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

79] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

80] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

81] The beaten road is the safest

82] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

83] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

84] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

85] An egg thief will become a camel thief

86] Take things as they come

87] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

88] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

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

90] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

91] Use makes mastery

92] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

93] Names are debts

94] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

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

96] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

97] Practice is the science that gives confidence

98] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

99] He that has no shame has no conscience

100] Poverty is the mother of crime