Famous Proverbs

1] It is too late to husband when all is spent

2] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

3] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

4] Virtue is its own reward

5] Practice is the science that gives confidence

6] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

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

8] Master easy, servant slack

9] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

10] The dog that fetches, will carry.

11] Birds once snared fear all bushes

12] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

13] It is not every question that deserves an answer

14] Frugality is the mother of virtue

15] The best things come in small packages

16] It is misery enough to have once been happy

17] He who touches pitch will be defiled

18] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

19] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

20] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

21] Mere wishes are silly fishes

22] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

23] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

24] Envy never enriched any man.

25] No choice amongst stinking fish

26] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

27] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

28] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

29] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

30] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

31] One foot is better than two crutches

32] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

33] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

34] Dreams go by contraries

35] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

36] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

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

38] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

39] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

40] Judge not the tree by its bark

41] Example is the greatest of all seducers

42] Time and tide wait for no man

43] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

44] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

45] Don’t cry before you are hurt

46] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

47] Novelty always appears handsome

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

49] None so busy as those who do nothing.

50] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

51] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

52] Quickly come, quickly go

53] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

54] Money isn’t everything

55] He that is absent is soon forgotten

56] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

57] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

58] There’s no great loss without some gain

59] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

60] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

61] Art improves Nature

62] A fault once denied is twice committed

63] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

64] Rats know the ways of rats

65] Hunger is sharper than the sword

66] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

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

68] Make the best of a bad bargain

69] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

70] Let us do evil that good may come

71] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

72] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

73] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

74] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

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

76] Don’t play with fire

77] Forewarned is forearmed

78] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

79] The world is full of fools

80] Friends are thieves of time

81] A heavy purse makes a light heart

82] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

83] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

84] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

85] A bad workman always blames his tools

86] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

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

88] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

89] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

90] It is not every question that deserves an answer

91] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

92] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

93] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

94] You never know your luck

95] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

96] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

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

98] Love and business teach eloquence

99] An old man is a bed full of bones

100] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still