Famous Proverbs

1] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

2] Learning is the eye of the mind

3] Nothing seek, nothing find

4] The sign brings customers

5] Step by step the ladder is ascended

6] One foot is better than two crutches

7] Think on the end before you begin

8] The pot calls the kettle black

9] He freezes who does not burn

10] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

11] A fault confessed is half redressed

12] A constant guest is never welcome

13] One can’t help many, but many can help one

14] Don’t cry stinking fish

15] One today is worth two tomorrows

16] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

17] A hungry man is angry man

18] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

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

20] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

21] Almost’ never killed a fly.

22] Every man has his faults

23] A piece of churchyard fits every body

24] Common fame is a liar

25] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

26] Variety is the spice of life

27] Every light has its shadow

28] It is not work that kills but worry

29] Every medal has two sides

30] The thread breaks where it is weakest

31] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

32] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

33] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

34] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

35] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

36] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

37] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

38] Many doctors, death accomplished

39] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

40] One kindness is the price of another

41] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

42] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

43] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

44] To teach is to learn twice over

45] A crowd is not company

46] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

47] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

48] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

49] Parents are patterns

50] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

51] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

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

53] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

54] Frugality is the mother of virtue

55] Half a word is enough for a wise man

56] Advice when most needed is least heeded

57] A good paymaster never wants workmen

58] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

59] God helps those who help themselves

60] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

61] The best things carried to excess are wrong

62] Forewarned is forearmed

63] Beauty is only skin deep

64] For a web begun, God sends the thread

65] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

66] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

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

68] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

69] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

70] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

71] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

72] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

73] Good words are worth much and cost little

74] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

75] To err is human; to forgive, divine

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

77] What is new cannot be true

78] It costs more to do ill than to do well

79] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

80] Ill comes often on the back worse

81] Her that is down need fear no fall

82] Nature hates all sudden changes

83] Time flees without a delay

84] Never spend your money before you have it

85] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

86] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

87] Trust is the mother of deceit

88] The exception proves the rule

89] What’s done is done

90] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

91] Strength grows stronger by being tried

92] Fair play’s a jewel

93] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

94] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

95] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

96] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

97] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

98] Books and friends should be few but good

99] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

100] Don’t put the cart before the horse