Famous Proverbs

1] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

2] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

3] It is never too late to mend

4] A good husband makes a good wife

5] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

6] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

7] Let sleeping dogs lie

8] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

9] Conscience does make cowards of us all

10] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

11] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

12] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

13] Gluttony kills more than the sword

14] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

15] Often and little eating makes a man fat

16] The tide must be taken when it comes

17] Hope is the poor man’s bread

18] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

19] Appetite comes with eating

20] He who comes first, grinds first.

21] Patience surpasses learning

22] A great city, a great solitude

23] Nothing seek, nothing find

24] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

25] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

26] We don’t get something for nothing

27] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

28] The belly carries the legs

29] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

30] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

31] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

32] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

33] Dog does not eat dog

34] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

35] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

36] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

37] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

38] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

39] Even silence may be eloquent

40] One kindness is the price of another

41] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

42] What is the mother of industry

43] There is nothing like being on the safe side

44] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

45] When in doubt, do nothing

46] Life is not all beer and skittles

47] III luck is good for something

48] No day so clear but has dark clouds

49] Love your friend with his fault

50] No land without stones, or meat without bones

51] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

52] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

53] A jest breaks no bones

54] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

55] Do not limp before the lame

56] What is the mother of industry

57] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

58] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

59] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

60] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

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

62] After a storm comes a calm

63] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

64] Respect is greater from a distance

65] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

66] What is worth doing is worth doing well

67] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

68] The weakest goes to the wall

69] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

70] The mean is the best

71] See which way the cat jumps

72] Pitchers have ears

73] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

74] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

75] Nothing succeeds like success

76] Money is the sinew of affairs

77] Come with the wind, got with the water

78] Still waters run deep

79] Hunger is the teacher of many

80] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

81] The weeds overgrow the corn.

82] No man so good but another may be as good as he

83] Bad luck often brings good luck

84] Poverty is the mother of crime

85] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

86] Lend your money and lose a friend

87] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

88] Prove your friend ere you have need

89] Nature is the true law

90] True gold is not transformed by fire

91] Change of pasture makes fat calves

92] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

93] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

94] Dying is as natural as living

95] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

96] A jest breaks no bones

97] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

98] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

99] Practice what you preach

100] Ale will make a cat speak