Famous Proverbs

1] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

2] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

3] Money has no smell

4] In doing we learn.

5] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

6] Man cannot live by bread alone

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

8] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

9] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

10] Knowledge is power

11] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

12] Waste not, want not

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

14] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

15] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

16] There is none misfortune cannot reach

17] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

18] Homer sometimes nods

19] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

20] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

21] Poverty parts friendship

22] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

23] He that wants health wants all

24] There is no time like the present

25] No remedy but patience

26] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

27] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

28] Love delights in praise

29] Repentance comes too late

30] Experience is the best teacher

31] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

32] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

33] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

34] Many hands make light work

35] Strike while the iron is hot

36] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

37] None so busy as those who do nothing.

38] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

39] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

40] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

41] Clothes do not make the man

42] Young saint, old devil.

43] A useful trade is a mine of gold

44] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

45] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

46] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

47] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

48] The result justifies the deed

49] You may have too much of a good thing

50] Every why has a wherefore

51] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

52] There is no fool like an old fool

53] Truth has no need of rhetoric

54] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

55] If anything can go wrong, it will

56] Black will take no other hue

57] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

58] The game is not worth the candle

59] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

60] Men make houses, women make homes

61] One swallow does not make a summer

62] Better are small fish than an empty dish

63] Don’t cry before you are hurt

64] One is not smelt where all stink

65] Two wrongs do not make a right

66] The company makes the feast

67] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

68] Like mother, like daughter

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

70] Sweet are the uses of adversity

71] Light grows the burden which is well borne

72] Kind hearts are more than coronets

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

74] Better a bare foot than none

75] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

76] Love will go through stone walls

77] Sweet are the uses of adversity

78] Distance lends enchantment to the view

79] No man can serve two masters

80] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

81] Familiarity breeds contempt

82] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

83] Spread the table, and contention will cease

84] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

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

86] Better be safe than sorry

87] Never say die

88] The envious man shall never want woe

89] Come with the wind, got with the water

90] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

91] A good word stills great anger

92] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

93] One can’t help many, but many can help one

94] A good paymaster never wants workmen

95] Virtue joints man to god

96] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

97] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

98] More than enough is too much

99] All glory comes from daring to begin

100] A word to the wise is enough