Famous Proverbs

1] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

2] He who does no good, does evil enough

3] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

4] Youth and age will never agree

5] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

6] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

7] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

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

9] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

10] Great actions speak minds

11] Every advantage has its disadvantage

12] Honesty is the best policy

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

14] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

15] He that promises too much means nothing

16] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

17] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

18] The deed comes back upon the doer.

19] Every man is his own worst enemy

20] A strong town is not won in an hour

21] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

22] Don’t try to run before you walk

23] Human blood is all of a colour

24] Union is strength.

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

26] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

27] No convenience without its inconvenience

28] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

29] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

30] He that has no shame has no conscience

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

32] A good dog deserves a good bone

33] Waste is not grandeur

34] The world is full of fools

35] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

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

37] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

38] By his deeds we know a man

39] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

40] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

41] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

42] Years know more than books

43] No convenience without its inconvenience

44] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

45] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

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

47] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

48] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

49] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

50] A fault once denied is twice committed

51] How forceful are right words

52] Care killed the cat

53] The best things are hard to come by.

54] A change is as good as rest

55] A good face is a letter of recommendation

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

57] There is no garden without its weeds

58] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

59] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

60] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

61] The envious man shall never want woe

62] What the king wills, that the law wills

63] No road is long with good company

64] Be just before you are generous

65] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

66] New lords, new laws

67] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

68] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

69] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

70] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

71] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

72] Nature will have her course

73] Love turns pimples

74] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

75] Silence is golden

76] It is a shame to be shameless

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

78] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

79] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

80] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

81] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

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

83] He thinks not well that thinks not again

84] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

85] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

86] Example, is better than precept

87] Everything comes to him who waits

88] You cannot have your cake and eat it

89] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

90] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

91] In the end, things will mend

92] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

93] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

94] Men are not angles

95] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

96] Heaven helps those who help themselves

97] Stolen sweets are sweeter

98] Bad luck often brings good luck

99] Debt is an evil conscience

100] Things are seldom what they seem.