Famous Proverbs

1] Where there’s a will there’s a way

2] Cleanliness is next to godliness

3] High places have their precipices

4] A good name is better than a golden girdle

5] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

6] It takes all sorts to make a world

7] The poor suffer all the wrong

8] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

9] Strength grows stronger by being tried

10] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

11] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

12] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

13] Discontent is the first step in progress

14] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

15] A good heart cannot lie.

16] The resolved mind has no cares

17] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

18] Love will find a way

19] The owl thinks her own young fairest

20] Never refuse a good offer

21] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

22] He that ventures not fails not.

23] There is no blindness like ignorance

24] A crowd is not company

25] First think, and then speak

26] No news is good news

27] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

28] Ill news comes unsent for.

29] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

30] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

31] Who greases his way travels easily

32] As you bake, so shall you eat.

33] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

34] Go while the going is good

35] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

36] Don’t cry before you are hurt

37] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

38] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

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

40] A friend is easier lost than found

41] Don’t meet trouble half-way

42] Do as say, not as I do

43] A little impatience will spoil great plans

44] Men are blind in their own cause

45] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

46] God makes the back for the burden

47] Friends agree best at a distance

48] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

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

50] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

51] Wise men silent, fools talk

52] A good conscience is a sure card

53] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

54] Facts are stubborn things

55] Birds once snared fear all bushes

56] Safety lies in the middle course

57] Gifts blind the eyes.

58] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

59] He that eats well should do his duty well

60] Shrouds have no pockets

61] High places have their precipices

62] Necessity breaks iron

63] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

64] Procrastination is the thief of time

65] An army marches on its stomach

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

67] He that has a wife, has strife

68] Haste makes waste

69] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

70] A door must be either shut or open

71] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

72] You are never too old to learn

73] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

74] Needs must when the evil drives

75] Blood will have blood

76] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

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

78] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

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

80] Diligence is the mother of good luck

81] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

82] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

83] The coward threatens only when he is safe

84] Hope often deludes the foolish man

85] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

86] Bind the sack before it be full

87] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

88] Poverty is no sin

89] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

90] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

91] A good conscience is a sure card

92] Whatever man has done, man can do

93] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

94] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

95] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

96] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

97] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

98] All meat pleases not all mouths

99] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

100] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you