Famous Proverbs

1] Desires are nourished by delays

2] Better to be safe than sorry.

3] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

4] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

5] Make the best of a bad job

6] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

7] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

8] No honest man ever repented his honesty

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

10] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

11] Children and fools cannot lie.

12] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

13] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

14] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

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

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

17] Home is where the heart is

18] Names and natures do often agree

19] First things first

20] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

21] Spare the rod and spoil the child

22] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

23] Bad luck often brings good luck

24] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

25] High places have their precipices

26] Think of ease, but work on.

27] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

28] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

29] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

30] Long looked for, comes at last

31] Youth and age will never agree

32] We shall lie all alike in our graves

33] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

34] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

35] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

36] Money is power

37] Nearest the heart comes out first

38] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

39] Alms never make poor

40] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

41] It is the unexpected that always happens

42] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

43] Time flies

44] The owl thinks her own young fairest

45] Six feet of earth make all men equal

46] Dreams are lies

47] History repeats itself

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

49] Debt is an evil conscience

50] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

51] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

52] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

53] A healthy man is a successful man

54] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

55] The belly carries the legs

56] He who hesitates is lost

57] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

58] Human blood is all of a colour

59] Be careful to whom you give

60] Goodness is better than beauty

61] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

62] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

63] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

64] He who serves is not free

65] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

66] Let like mate with like

67] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

68] Acorns were good till bread was found

69] Borrowed garments never fit well

70] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

71] Everything in moderation.

72] Delays are not denials

73] A monk can’t shave his own head

74] Friendship should not be all on one

75] True gold is not transformed by fire

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

77] Four eyes see more than two

78] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

79] Ambition makes people diligent

80] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

81] He that will thrive must rise at five

82] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

83] One is never too old to learn

84] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

85] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

86] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

87] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

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

89] Fools grow without watering.

90] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

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

92] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

93] Honour is the reward of virtue

94] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

95] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

96] Intimacy lessens fame

97] Keep some till further more come

98] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

99] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

100] Live and Learn