Famous Proverbs

1] Every why has a wherefore

2] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

3] No feast lasts forever.

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

5] He that brings good news, knocks hard

6] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

7] Take things as you find them

8] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

9] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

10] Tomorrow is another day

11] The tide must be taken when it comes

12] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

13] Necessity knows no law

14] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

15] Poverty is not a crime

16] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

17] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

18] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

19] An Englishman’s home is his castle

20] Misfortunes never come singly

21] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

22] The world is full of fools

23] A good conscience is a sure card

24] No man is content with his lot

25] No hair so small but has his shadow

26] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

27] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

28] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

29] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

30] Novelty always appears handsome

31] Better no doctor at all than three.

32] Every beginning is hard

33] Tell a lie and stick to it.

34] Marriages are made in heaven

35] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

36] Ready money is ready medicine

37] Suffering does not manifest itself

38] Anger without power is folly

39] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

40] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

41] Call a spade a spade

42] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

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

44] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

45] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

46] Children and fools have merry lives

47] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

48] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

49] Where there is peace, there is blessing

50] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

51] Even a worm will turn

52] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

53] He who considers too much will perform little.

54] An honest good look covers many faults.

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

56] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

57] Fortune favours fools

58] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

59] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

60] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

61] The dog is a lion in his own house

62] Do as say, not as I do

63] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

64] The weakest goes to the wall

65] Six feet of earth make all men equal

66] The hole calls the thief

67] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

68] You can’t tell a book by its cover

69] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

70] There are more men threatened than stricken

71] Everything would fain live

72] Bear and forbear

73] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

74] Sorrow will pay no debt

75] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

76] Penny and penny laid up will be many

77] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

78] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

79] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

80] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

81] Crust is better than no bread

82] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

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

84] All truths are not to be told

85] An old man is a bed full of bones

86] Divine grace was never slow

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

88] Eat to live and not live to eat.

89] Small is the seed of every greatness

90] Paddle your own canoe

91] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

92] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

93] He that brings good news, knocks hard

94] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

95] Practice is the science that gives confidence

96] He that is down need fear no fall

97] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

98] The lion had need of the mouse

99] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

100] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money