Famous Proverbs

1] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

2] Man proposes, God disposes

3] No news is good news

4] One sheep follows another

5] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

6] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

7] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

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

9] There is nothing new under the sun

10] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

11] There is no smoke without fire

12] Desert and reward seldom keep company

13] The leopard cannot change its spots

14] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

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

16] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

17] Better unborn than untaught

18] The best things carried to excess are wrong

19] It will be the same a hundred years hence

20] Envy never enriched any man.

21] Stolen goods never thrive

22] Boys will be boys

23] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

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

25] Truth is stranger than fiction

26] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

27] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

28] Wrong never comes right

29] See which way the cat jumps

30] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

31] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

32] Too much cunning undoes

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

34] He laughs best who laughs last

35] One must be a servant before one can be a master

36] One foot is better than two crutches

37] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

38] Threatened folk live long

39] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

40] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

41] What is money to a cat?

42] Dumb dogs are dangerous

43] The voice is the best music

44] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

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

46] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

47] Every why has a wherefore

48] When bees area old, they yield n honey

49] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

50] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

51] What can’t be cured must be endured

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

53] Praise is always pleasant

54] Better late than never, but better never late

55] Precept begins, examples accomplish

56] When one door shuts, another opens

57] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

58] Good fame is better than a good face

59] Anything will fit a naked man.

60] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

61] A man without a wife is but half a man

62] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

63] Who suffers much is silent

64] Kindness lies in one side of the house

65] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

66] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

67] The more cost, the more honour

68] Praise no man till he is dead.

69] Learn to walk before you run

70] The ant had wings to her hurt

71] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

72] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

73] Laughter makes good blood

74] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

75] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

76] Time and tide wait for no man

77] He that talks much, errs much

78] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

79] Desires are nourished by delays

80] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

81] What’s in a name?

82] Old vessels must leak

83] Dying men speak true

84] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

85] Pursuits become habits

86] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

87] Habit is second nature

88] The exception proves the rule

89] Some are wise and some are otherwise

90] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

91] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

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

93] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

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

95] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

96] Discontent is the first step in progress

97] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

98] The child is father of the man

99] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

100] You cannot have your cake and eat it