Famous Proverbs

1] Things are only worth one makes them worth

2] Long life has long misery

3] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

4] Fear of death is worse than death itself

5] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

6] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

7] Much babbling is not without offence

8] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

9] He that desires but little has no deed of much

10] No one betrays himself by silence

11] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

12] Every man praises his own wares

13] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

14] One fool praises another

15] Things are seldom what they seem.

16] Findings are keepings

17] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

18] The dog that fetches, will carry.

19] The wish is father to the thought

20] A good payer is master of another’s purse

21] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

22] Trust is the mother of deceit

23] Many hands make light work

24] Put not the bucket too often in the well

25] The mob tramples on the coward

26] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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

28] In peace, prepare for war

29] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

30] Standing pools gather fifth

31] Law makers should not be law breakers

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

33] None so blind as those who will not see

34] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

35] He that promises too much means nothing

36] A soft answer turns away wrath

37] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

38] Be still and have thy will

39] As you sow, so shall you reap

40] Woes unite foes

41] Necessity is the mother of invention

42] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

43] Charity begins at home.

44] Nothing crave, nothing have

45] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

46] We have all been once in our life

47] The tailor makes the man

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

49] Love is without reason

50] From small beginnings come great things

51] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

52] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

53] Children and fools cannot lie.

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

55] The ass that brays most eats

56] We don’t get something for nothing

57] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

58] Might overcome right.

59] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

60] He who sows, trusts in God

61] A little help is worth a deal of pity

62] Honesty is ill to thrive by

63] The labour we delight in physics pain

64] It is more blessed to give than to receive

65] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

66] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

67] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

68] Paddle your own canoe

69] No man is a hero to his valet

70] Better a bare foot than none

71] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

72] Precepts may lead but examples draw

73] There is many a fair thing full false

74] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

75] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

76] Nothing crave, nothing have

77] Appearances are deceptive

78] A change is as good as rest

79] Dog does not eat dog

80] Fair play’s a jewel

81] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

82] Marriages are made in heaven

83] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

84] An ill tongue may do much

85] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

86] The fox may grow grey, but never good

87] Misfortune makes foes of friends

88] He that desires but little has no deed of much

89] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

90] First think, and then speak

91] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

92] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

93] Like will to like

94] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

95] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

96] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

97] It takes two to make a quarrel

98] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

99] A single rose does not mean spring

100] The best of men are but men at best.