Famous Proverbs

1] Nature is content with little.

2] Beware of him who makes thee presents

3] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

4] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

5] III counsel mars all

6] An honest good look covers many faults.

7] Patience surpasses learning

8] Great gain makes easy work

9] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

10] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

11] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

12] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

13] He that travels far knows much

14] A true friend is forever a friend

15] What costs little is little esteemed

16] Repentance is a bitter physic

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

18] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

19] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

20] No pain, no cure

21] Law makers should not be law breakers

22] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

23] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

24] One man sows and another reaps

25] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

26] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

27] Never too late to late to repent

28] Kill two birds with one stone

29] Dying is as natural as living

30] One must be a servant before one can be a master

31] For a web begun, God sends the thread

32] First catch your hare

33] Every little helps

34] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

35] There is nothing new under the sun

36] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

37] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

38] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

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

40] An old fox is not easily snared

41] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

42] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

43] All heiresses are beautiful.

44] You must grin and bear it

45] United we stand, divided we fall

46] Choose thy company before thy drink

47] What’s in a name?

48] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

49] Other times, other manners

50] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

51] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

52] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

53] The world is full of fools

54] He that is born a fool is never cured

55] A woman’s work is never done

56] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

57] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

58] Needs must when the devil drives

59] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

60] Fools rejoice at promises

61] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

62] All roads lead to Rome

63] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

64] The biter is sometimes bit

65] Friends agree best at a distance

66] Like mistress, like maid

67] Open confession is good for the soul

68] The mob tramples on the coward

69] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

70] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

71] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

72] An angry man is not fit to pray

73] You cannot unscramble eggs

74] He is an ill husband who is not missed

75] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

76] Many dishes make many diseases

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

78] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

79] Virtue is its own reward

80] They say so’ is half a lie

81] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

82] First think, and then speak

83] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

84] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

85] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

86] First catch your hare

87] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

88] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

89] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

90] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

91] A prophet is without honour in his own country

92] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

93] What is worth doing is worth doing well

94] The best go first

95] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

96] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

97] Coming events cast their shadows before

98] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

99] All are not saints that go to church

100] Better wear out shoes than sheers.