Famous Proverbs

1] Hope is grief’s best music

2] Covetousness is the root of all evil

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

4] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

5] Patient waiters are no losers

6] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

7] Least said, soonest mended

8] Patience surpasses learning

9] A constant guest is never welcome

10] Things are seldom what they seem.

11] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

12] Even silence may be eloquent

13] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

14] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

15] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

16] There is safety in numbers

17] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

18] Out of sight, out of mind

19] The king can do no wrong

20] Adventures are to be adventurous

21] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

22] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

23] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

24] First think, and then speak

25] Morning dreams come true

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

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

28] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

29] Time flees without a delay

30] A good servant must have good wages

31] It is misery enough to have once been happy

32] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

33] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

34] Honest is the best policy

35] He that has plenty of goods will have more

36] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

37] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

38] None so deaf as those that will not hear

39] A penny saved is a penny gained

40] Every cloud has a silver lining

41] Make the best of a bad bargain

42] Through obedience learn to command.

43] When one door shuts, another opens

44] Tell a lie and stick to it.

45] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

46] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

47] The best wine comes from an old vessel

48] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

49] Health without money is half an ague

50] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

51] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

52] Everything is good in its season

53] Envy never enriched any man.

54] Better late than never

55] Like master, like man

56] Variety is the spice of life

57] A parrot will only say what it is taught

58] Good counsel never comes amiss

59] All heiresses are beautiful.

60] Never spur a willing horse

61] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

62] Use makes mastery

63] Who greases his way travels easily

64] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

65] What costs little is little esteemed

66] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

67] No news is good news

68] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

69] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

70] Misery loves company.

71] Virtue joints man to god

72] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

73] An old horse knows the route

74] Praise is always pleasant

75] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

76] Even silence may be eloquent

77] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

78] You can’t win them all

79] Misery loves company.

80] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

81] A bad excuse is better than none at all

82] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

83] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

84] There is no accounting for tastes

85] A hungry man smells meat afar off

86] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

87] Easy come, easy go

88] Nature surpasses art

89] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

90] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

91] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

92] Either mend or end

93] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

94] God is always on the side of the big battalions

95] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

96] Fools live poor to die rich

97] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

98] Bold men have generous hearts

99] Grin and bear it

100] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar