Famous Proverbs

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

2] All good things must come to an end

3] When one door shuts, another opens

4] Do not wear out your welcome

5] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

6] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

7] Be careful to whom you give

8] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

9] The world is full of fools

10] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

11] Hard cases make bad law

12] Cheap is dear in the long run.

13] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

14] Eat to live and not live to eat.

15] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

16] If one will not, another will

17] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

18] Better learn late than never

19] It is good fishing in troubled waters

20] It is not work that kills but worry

21] There is nothing lost by civility

22] After the extreme of cold comes spring

23] The fairest silk is soonest stained

24] A hungry man smells meat afar off

25] All glory comes from daring to begin

26] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

27] Take time by the forelock

28] Distance lends enchantment to the view

29] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

30] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

31] He who excuses himself accuses himself

32] It is more pain to do nothing than something

33] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

34] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

35] Little things are pretty

36] It takes a wise man to be a fool

37] Better an apple given than eaten

38] It is the unexpected that always happens

39] Charity excuseth not cheating.

40] Judge not of men and things at first sight

41] It is easy to be wise after the event

42] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

43] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

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

45] Lookers-on see more than players

46] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

47] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

48] Dead men tell no tales

49] Alms never make poor

50] Fool’s haste is no speed

51] There is no garden without its weeds

52] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

53] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

54] Tomorrow never comes

55] Divide and rule

56] The tide must be taken when it comes

57] Conscience does make cowards of us all

58] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

59] Where there is peace, God is

60] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

61] Thrift is a great revenue

62] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

63] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

64] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

65] His bark is worse than his bite

66] What has been, may be

67] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

68] Good to begin well, better to end well.

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

70] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

71] Precept begins, examples accomplish

72] Money is the sinew of affairs

73] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

74] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

75] He that obey cannot command

76] Time flies

77] The mob tramples on the coward

78] Waste makes wants

79] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

80] Lend never that thing you needed most

81] Let the buyer beware

82] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

83] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

84] Beware of no man more than himself

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

86] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

87] It is ill striving against the stream

88] The hand that gives, gathers

89] Choose thy company before thy drink

90] Every shoe fits not every foot

91] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

92] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

93] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

94] Covetousness breaks the sack

95] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

96] He that has no money needs no purse

97] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

98] If you have known one, you have known them all

99] A good heart cannot lie.

100] The end justifies the means