Famous Proverbs

1] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

2] They brag most who can do least

3] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

4] Small is the seed of every greatness

5] Nothing succeeds like success

6] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

7] Nothing comes from nothing

8] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

9] There is truth in wine

10] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

11] The end justifies the means

12] Ill comes often on the back worse

13] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

14] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

15] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

16] Come with the wind, got with the water

17] Don’t try to run before you walk

18] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

19] The resolved mind has no cares

20] The best fish swim near the bottom

21] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

22] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

23] One must howl with the wolves

24] Penny and penny laid up will be many

25] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

26] A little impatience will spoil great plans

27] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

28] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

29] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

30] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

31] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

32] In the land of hope there is never any winter

33] One hand washes the other

34] Charity begins at home.

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

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

37] You cannot make bricks without straw

38] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

39] In fair weather prepare for foul

40] Honour is the reward of virtue

41] No land without stones, or meat without bones

42] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

43] Long absent, soon forgotten

44] He that is born a fool is never cured

45] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

46] Poverty is the mother of crime

47] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

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

49] The hole calls the thief

50] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

51] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

52] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

53] What has been, may be

54] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

55] There is no smoke without fire

56] No remedy but patience

57] While there is life, there is hope

58] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

59] In fair weather prepare for foul

60] Love your friend with his fault

61] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

62] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

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

64] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

65] Health is not value till sickness comes

66] The worse luck now, the better another time

67] When the word is out it belongs to another

68] He that ventures not fails not.

69] Wink at small faults

70] He knows which side his bread is buttered

71] Spread the table, and contention will cease

72] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

73] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

74] Tomorrow never comes

75] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

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

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

78] A true man and a thief think not the same

79] The greatest talkers are the least doers

80] Prevention is better than cure

81] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

82] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

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

84] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

85] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

86] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

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

88] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

89] High places have their precipices

90] He that promises too much means nothing

91] Love is lawless.

92] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

93] Man does what he can, and God what he will

94] Union (or Unity) is strength

95] He that pities another remembers himself

96] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

97] Now is now, and then was then

98] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

99] Far fowls have fair feather

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