Famous Proverbs

1] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

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

3] There is truth in wine

4] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

5] Every dog has his (its) day

6] What everybody says must be true

7] Take away fuel, take away flame

8] Be just before you are generous

9] All men are mortal

10] Danger makes men devout

11] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

12] Do not kick against the pricks

13] A good face is a letter of recommendation

14] Misfortune does not always come to injure

15] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

16] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

17] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

18] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

19] When one door shuts, another opens

20] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

21] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

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

23] Children learn to creep ere they can go

24] Clothes do not make the man

25] Homer sometimes nods

26] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

27] Patient waiters are no losers

28] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

29] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

30] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

31] He that will thrive must rise at five

32] If one will not, another will

33] A still tongue makes a wise head

34] Too much curiosity lost paradise

35] Don’t ride the high horse

36] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

37] Better to ask the way than go astray.

38] All for one, and one for all.

39] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

40] Manners make the man

41] Tell the truth and shame the devil

42] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

43] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

44] Love is blind

45] New meat begets a new appetite

46] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

47] Think of ease, but work on.

48] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

49] Lavishness is not generosity

50] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

51] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

52] He that cannot ask, cannot live

53] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

54] He stands not surely that never slips

55] Patience is a plaster for all sores

56] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

57] An evil life is a kind of death.

58] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

59] Every commodity has its discommodity

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

61] Nature will have her course

62] Like will to like

63] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

64] Actions speak louder than words

65] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

66] The mob tramples on the coward

67] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

68] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

69] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

70] Little by little and bit by bit.

71] Take the tone of the company you are in

72] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

73] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

74] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

75] Many dishes make many diseases

76] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

77] Pleasant hours fly past

78] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

79] Common fame is seldom to blame

80] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

81] There is nothing lost by civility

82] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

83] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

84] An angry man is not fit to pray

85] Don’t meet trouble half-way

86] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

87] In everything consider the end

88] Confess and be hanged

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

90] Never say die

91] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

92] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

93] He that has plenty of goods will have more

94] There is honour among thieves

95] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

96] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

97] Idleness is the root of all evil

98] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

99] It is not every question that deserves an answer

100] Ill news comes often on the back of worse