Famous Proverbs

1] What may be done at any time is done at no time

2] Share and share alike

3] A good name is sooner lost than won

4] A word is enough to the wise

5] A mouse may help a lion

6] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

7] The cowl does not make the monk.

8] Silence is also speech

9] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

10] Delays are not denials

11] Morning dreams come true

12] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

13] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

14] Better are small fish than an empty dish

15] He who owes is in all the wrong

16] Suffering does not manifest itself

17] The Pen is mightier than the sword

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

19] He that praises himself, spatters himself

20] Discontent is the first step in progress

21] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

22] Every shoe fits not every foot

23] No man is content with his lot

24] Men are known by the company they keep.

25] Let the buyer beware

26] Cleanliness is next to godliness

27] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

28] Weak things united become strong

29] A learned man has always riches in himself

30] Our own opinion is never wrong

31] He that will thrive must rise at five

32] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

33] Never too late to late to repent

34] An army marches on its stomach

35] First things first

36] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

37] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

38] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

39] Every man is his own worst enemy

40] Soft fire makes sweet malt

41] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

42] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

43] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

44] Like question, like answer.

45] Wise men silent, fools talk

46] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

47] Be still and have thy will

48] The longest way round is the shortest way home

49] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

50] Pat any man and dust will fly

51] Vice makes virtue shine

52] Water is the king of food

53] Where god will help, nothing does harm

54] Money can influence even the spirits

55] A joke’s a very serious thing

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

57] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

58] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

59] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

60] Good hand, good hire

61] What is word but wind?

62] Do as you would be done by

63] Where there’s muck, there’s money

64] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

65] What must be must be

66] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

67] The pen is the tongue of the hand

68] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

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

70] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

71] Work smart; don’t work hard

72] A prophet is without honour in his own country

73] Lavishness is not generosity

74] The longest journey starts with a single step

75] Beware of no man more than himself

76] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

77] Rust wastes more than use

78] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

79] Friends agree best at a distance

80] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

81] His own ingenuity pricks him.

82] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

83] Man proposes, God disposes

84] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

85] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

86] The more wicked, the more lucky

87] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

88] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

89] Never too late to late to repent

90] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

91] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

92] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

93] Love is sweet torment

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

95] To err is human; to forgive, divine

96] One man sows and another reaps

97] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

98] A man’s studies pass in to his character

99] Repentance comes too late

100] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence