Famous Proverbs

1] To err is human

2] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

3] Nature will have her course

4] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

5] Good luck beats early rising

6] A bully never grows up.

7] Too much curiosity lost paradise

8] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

9] See how the wind blows

10] They that dance must pay the fiddler

11] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

12] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

13] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

14] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

15] First impressions are half the battle

16] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

17] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

18] A good wife is a good prize

19] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

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

21] First try and then trust

22] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

23] The more cost, the more honour

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

25] What’s done is done

26] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

27] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

28] Where there is whispering there is lying

29] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

30] The falling drops hollow the stone

31] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

32] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

33] Poverty is not a crime

34] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

35] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

36] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

37] Small is beautiful

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

39] All things are easy, that are done willingly

40] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

41] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

42] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

43] Prospect is often better than possession

44] There’s a black sheep in every flock

45] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

46] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

47] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

48] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

49] A knave and a fool never take thought

50] As you bake, so shall you eat.

51] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

52] Comparisons are odious

53] No man is a hero to his valet

54] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

55] Well begun is half done.

56] True gold is not transformed by fire

57] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

58] A stitch in time saves nine

59] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

60] Men are not angles

61] Slow but sure wins the race

62] The course of true love never did run smooth

63] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

64] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

65] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

66] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

67] Discretion is the better part of valour

68] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

69] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

70] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

71] You cannot have your cake and eat it

72] Rome was not built in a day

73] One is what one eats

74] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

75] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

76] The sign brings customers

77] Use makes mastery

78] As you brew, so shall you drink.

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

80] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

81] We live by laws, not by examples

82] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

83] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

84] There is no accounting for tastes

85] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

86] Much would have more

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

88] Weeds need no sowing

89] The pot calls the kettle black

90] Bind the sack before it be full

91] If you would be well served, serve yourself

92] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

93] What will not money do?

94] Advise none to marry or to go to war

95] Procrastination is the thief of time

96] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

97] Dogs bark as they are bred.

98] Take things as they come

99] Give and take is fair play

100] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge