Famous Proverbs

1] Never too late to repent

2] It is the first step that is troublesome

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

4] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

5] Work expands so as to fill the time available

6] Money is the root of all evil

7] No man is his craft’s master the first day

8] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

9] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

10] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

11] There is honour among thieves

12] Two blacks do not make a white

13] The young will sow their wild oats

14] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

15] We have all been once in our life

16] Experience is good if not bought too dear

17] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

18] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

19] Silence and thinking can no man offend

20] Easier said than done

21] The weeds overgrow the corn.

22] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

23] You cannot make a crab walk straight

24] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

25] No man so good but another may be as good as he

26] Two wrongs do not make a right

27] A fault once denied is twice committed

28] Good hand, good hire

29] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

30] Precepts may lead but examples draw

31] Do not kick against the pricks

32] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

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

34] He who envies admits his inferiority

35] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

36] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

37] The fairest silk is soonest stained

38] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

39] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

40] Some are wise and some are otherwise

41] Open confession is good for the soul

42] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

43] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

44] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

45] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

46] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

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

48] Honest is the best policy

49] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

50] Friends agree best at a distance

51] The unexpected always happens.

52] A man can die but once

53] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

54] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

55] Dumb men get no lands

56] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

57] There are more men threatened than stricken

58] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

59] At a good bargain thinks twice

60] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

61] Diligence is the mother of good luck

62] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

63] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

64] You cannot serve God and Mammon

65] It is not work that kills but worry

66] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

67] Anything will fit a naked man.

68] Do as say, not as I do

69] A good example is the best sermon

70] When meat is in anger is out

71] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

72] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

73] Money isn’t everything

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

75] Call a spade a spade

76] Never refuse a good offer

77] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

78] He stands not surely that never slips

79] There is nothing lost by civility

80] Well begun is half done.

81] Men are known by the company they keep.

82] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

83] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

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

85] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

86] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

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

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

89] All roads lead to Rome

90] Precept begins, examples accomplish

91] Know thyself

92] Beauty opens locked doors

93] The hand that gives, gathers

94] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

95] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

96] Lookers-on see most of the game

97] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

98] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

99] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

100] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself