Famous Proverbs

1] Heaven helps those who help themselves

2] Every law has a loophole

3] That which is easily done is soon believed

4] The greatest step is that out of doors

5] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

6] Fools grow without watering.

7] Speech is silver, silence is golden

8] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

9] Virtue carries a lean purse

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

11] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

12] Forgive and forget

13] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

14] Silence gives (or means) consent

15] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

16] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

17] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

18] The hole calls the thief

19] Spare the rod and spoil the child

20] There are more ways to the wood than one.

21] Success has many friends

22] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

23] One potter envies another

24] No misfortune will go on forever

25] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

26] He who sows, trusts in God

27] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

28] Sooner begun, sooner done

29] Once a use and ever a custom

30] Great oaks from little acorns grow

31] Busiest men find the most time

32] Sooner begun, sooner done

33] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

34] What is deferred is not abandoned

35] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

36] Little things are pretty

37] Never hit a man when he’s down

38] Union (or Unity) is strength

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

40] More haste, less speed

41] Homer sometimes nods

42] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

43] A knave and a fool never take thought

44] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

45] After a storm comes a calm

46] An evil life is a kind of death.

47] The early man ever borrows from the late man

48] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

49] Never do things by halves

50] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

51] A good name is a rich heritage

52] See which way the cat jumps

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

54] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

55] All our pomp the earth covers

56] A goose drinks as much as gander

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

58] Needs must when the evil drives

59] A good lawyer must be a great liar

60] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

61] Fish and guests smell in three days

62] Nothing succeeds like success

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

64] Every little helps

65] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

66] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

67] We live by laws, not by examples

68] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

69] Bad news travels fast

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

71] A man with no hands is given a ring.

72] Do not wear out your welcome

73] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

74] When angry, count a hundred

75] The thread breaks where it is weakest

76] Gold is tried in the fire

77] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

78] Great barkers are no biters

79] Every groom is a king at home

80] He that is absent is soon forgotten

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

82] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

83] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

84] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

85] He that has no shame has no conscience

86] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

87] There’s a black sheep in every flock

88] He that eats least eats most

89] Stolen sweets are sweeter

90] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

91] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

92] Shrouds have no pockets

93] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

94] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

95] He stands not surely that never slips

96] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

97] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

98] A living dog is better than a dead lion

99] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

100] Necessity is a powerful weapon