Famous Proverbs

1] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

2] The good is often the enemy of the best

3] Train the child in the way he should go.

4] He who envies admits his inferiority

5] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

6] White there’s life there’s hope

7] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

8] A great city, a great solitude

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

10] Dying men speak true

11] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

12] Crowns have cares

13] The absent party is always to blame.

14] Plain dealing is a jewel

15] Many hands make light work

16] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

17] No remedy but patience

18] Two wrongs do not make a right

19] Fine feathers make fine birds.

20] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

21] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

22] Delays are not denials

23] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

24] Misfortune does not always come to injure

25] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

26] Idle folks lack no excuses

27] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

28] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

29] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

30] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

31] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

32] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

33] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

34] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

35] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

36] Marriages are made in heaven

37] Beauty is but skin-deep

38] Many words, many buffets

39] The early bird catches the worm

40] Honesty is the best policy

41] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

42] Will is no skill

43] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

44] The result justifies the deed

45] Muck and money go together

46] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

47] Money refused loses its brightness

48] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

49] No man is wise at all times

50] Patience surpasses learning

51] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

52] A light purse makes a heavy heart

53] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

54] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

55] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

56] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

57] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

58] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

59] A knave and a fool never take thought

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

61] Experience is the mother of wisdom

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

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

64] The first step is the hardest

65] Life means strife

66] Mere wishes are silly fishes

67] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

68] Don’t kick against the pricks

69] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

70] The fairest flowers soonest fade

71] Her that is down need fear no fall

72] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

73] Fools grow without watering.

74] The greatest step is that out of doors

75] Think on the end before you begin

76] One father is more than a hundred school masters

77] Home is where the heart is

78] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

79] Beauty draws more than oxen

80] A merchant that gains not, loses

81] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

82] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

83] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

84] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

85] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

86] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

87] It will be the same a hundred years hence

88] Novelty always appears handsome

89] Ill gotten, ill spent

90] Good luck beats early rising

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

92] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

93] Make haste slowly

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

95] Quickly come, quickly go

96] He who teaches learns

97] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

98] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

99] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

100] Little things are pretty