Famous Proverbs

1] Great barkers are no biters

2] All things are difficult before they are easy

3] A little is better than none

4] Loyalty is worth more than money

5] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

6] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

7] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

8] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

9] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

10] Half a word is enough for a wise man

11] One reason is as good as fifty

12] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

13] Best is cheapest

14] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

15] Better are small fish than an empty dish

16] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

17] Water is the king of food

18] The mean is the best

19] Great gain makes easy work

20] The age of miracles is past

21] The labour we delight in physics pain

22] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

23] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

24] Spend and be free, but make no waste

25] An egg thief will become a camel thief

26] No one ought to judge in his own cause

27] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

28] Success has many friends

29] Sow thin and mow thin

30] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

31] The king can do no wrong

32] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

33] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

34] The devil lurks behind the cross

35] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

36] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

37] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

38] It’s dogged that does it

39] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

40] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

41] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

42] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

43] Will is no skill

44] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

45] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

46] Little wealth, little care

47] The course of true love never did run smooth

48] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

49] Plain dealing is a jewel

50] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

51] Better the last smile than the first laugh

52] You may have too much of a good thing

53] Fish begins to stink at the head

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

55] Virtue carries a lean purse

56] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

57] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

58] Take the tone of the company you are in

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

60] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

61] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

62] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

63] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

64] Every man has his price

65] Enough is as good as a feast

66] Flesh is frail

67] Love sees no fault

68] A bully is always a coward

69] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

70] He knows the water best who has waded through it

71] Blood will have blood

72] Where god will help, nothing does harm

73] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

74] Nature does nothing in vain

75] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

76] Variety is charming

77] The money you refuse will never do you good

78] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

79] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

80] Better the foot slip than the tongue

81] A constant guest is never welcome

82] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

83] Work won’t kill but worry will.

84] Beauty opens locked doors

85] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

86] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

87] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

88] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

89] Poverty is not a crime

90] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

91] A merchant that gains not, loses

92] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

93] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

94] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

95] Better a bare foot than none

96] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

97] Example, is better than precept

98] Despair gives courage to a coward

99] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

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