Famous Proverbs

1] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

2] Strike while the iron is hot

3] Wife and Children are bills of charges

4] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

5] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

6] There is nothing new under the sun

7] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

8] He knows most who speaks least

9] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

10] Much would have more

11] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

12] Water is the king of food

13] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

14] Friendship should not be all on one

15] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

16] Silence gives (or means) consent

17] What’s done cannot be undone

18] There is death in the pot.

19] The axe falls on a straight tree first

20] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

21] Tell a lie and stick to it.

22] Never refuse a good offer

23] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

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

25] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

26] A true man and a thief think not the same

27] Laughter makes good blood

28] Better unborn than untaught

29] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

30] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

31] They brag most who can do least

32] Much meat, much malady

33] Money talks

34] Don’t cry before you are hurt

35] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

36] The rich knows not who is his friend

37] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

38] No man is infallible

39] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

40] Call a spade a spade

41] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

42] He mediates revenge who least complains.

43] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

44] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

45] Laughter makes good blood

46] Once a knave, always a knave

47] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

48] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

49] Petty laws breed great crimes

50] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

51] Custom reconciles us to everything

52] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

53] It is the first step that is troublesome

54] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

55] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

56] He that speaks not, God hears not

57] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

58] Sooner begun, sooner done

59] Make haste slowly

60] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

61] When angry, count a hundred

62] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

63] Of one ill come many

64] Rome was not built in a day

65] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

66] While there is life, there is hope

67] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

68] Many hands make light work

69] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

70] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

71] A friend is easier lost than found

72] A strong town is not won in an hour

73] Faint heart never won fair lady

74] A constant guest is never welcome

75] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

76] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

77] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

78] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

79] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

80] No tie can oblige the perfidious

81] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

82] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

83] All glory comes from daring to begin

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

85] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

86] No honest man ever repented his honesty

87] Barking dogs seldom bite

88] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

89] Train the child in the way he should go.

90] Ale will make a cat speak

91] Dog does not eat dog

92] Idle folks have the least leisure

93] Idle folks have the least leisure

94] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

95] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

96] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

97] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

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

99] Good wine needs no bush

100] A healthy man is a successful man