Famous Proverbs

1] In everything consider the end

2] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

3] There is honour among thieves

4] Money makes the man

5] He that speaks not, God hears not

6] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

7] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

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

9] Love can find a way

10] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

11] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

12] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

13] Habit is second nature

14] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

15] Shrouds have no pockets

16] Curiosity killed the cat.

17] A fool and his money are soon parted

18] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

19] Precepts may lead but examples draw

20] All for one, and one for all.

21] His bark is worse than his bite

22] Big words seldom go with good deeds

23] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

24] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

25] A penny saved is a penny gained

26] You cannot serve God and Mammon

27] Never buy a pig in a poke

28] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

29] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

30] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

31] A miss is as good as a mile

32] A gift much expected is paid, not given

33] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

34] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

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

36] Hunger is the teacher of many

37] The value of money is having it.

38] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

39] Beware of him who makes thee presents

40] Too much cunning undoes

41] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

42] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

43] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

44] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

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

46] Wink at small faults

47] Children and chickens must be always picking

48] The sun shines upon all alike.

49] As soon as there is life there is danger

50] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

51] The longest day must have an end

52] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

53] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

54] There’s a time and place for everything

55] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

56] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

57] Better to be safe than sorry.

58] It’s dogged that does it

59] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

60] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

61] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

62] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

63] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

64] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

65] It never rains it pours

66] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

67] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

68] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

69] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

70] It is easy to be wise after the event

71] Safety lies in the middle course

72] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

73] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

74] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

75] Things are only worth one makes them worth

76] Mirth without measure is madness

77] God’s lambs will play.

78] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

79] Lookers-on see most of the game

80] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

81] Much science, much sorrow

82] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

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

84] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

85] Where there is no might, right loses itself

86] Dying is as natural as living

87] Little things are great to little men

88] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

89] Like father, like son

90] Let not your tongue run at rover

91] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

92] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

93] After the extreme of cold comes spring

94] A man may bear till his back breaks

95] Better learn late than never

96] Cleanliness is next to godliness

97] Call a spade a spade

98] The highest branch is not the safest roost

99] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

100] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it