Famous Proverbs

1] Beauty fades like a flower.

2] Appetite comes with eating

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

4] Don’t play with fire

5] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

6] Past cure, past care

7] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

8] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

9] Too much cunning undoes

10] Morning dreams come true

11] A word to the wise is enough

12] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

13] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

14] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

15] If you want peace, prepare for war

16] So many men, so many opinions

17] Desert and reward seldom keep company

18] Honest is the best policy

19] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

20] A good heart conquers ill fortune

21] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

22] Worse things happen at sea

23] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

24] No sweet without sweat

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

26] You cannot have your cake and eat it

27] Health is better than wealth

28] Step by step the ladder is ascended

29] Every man must carry his own cross

30] Good words are worth much and cost little

31] No man is infallible

32] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

33] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

34] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

35] A good payer is master of another’s purse

36] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

37] Example is the greatest of all seducers

38] The love of money is the root of all evil

39] Her that is down need fear no fall

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

41] The mob tramples on the coward

42] Desires are nourished by delays

43] Do as I say, not as I do

44] Hasty work, double work,

45] Much babbling is not without offence

46] The result justifies the deed

47] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

48] None can guess the jewel by the casket

49] Bear and forbear

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

51] Love and business teach eloquence

52] Wife and Children are bills of charges

53] A good garden may have some ill weeds

54] The fairest silk is soonest stained

55] An oak is not felled at one stroke

56] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

57] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

58] The dog that fetches, will carry.

59] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

60] He that talks much, errs much

61] Never too late to learn

62] You can’t tell a book by its cover

63] The game is not worth the candle

64] A prophet is without honour in his own country

65] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

66] Grasp all, lose all

67] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

68] God sends cold after Clothes

69] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

70] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

71] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

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

73] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

74] Never refuse a good offer

75] Many eyes upon the king

76] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

77] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

78] Better be safe than sorry

79] He that sows virtue reaps fame

80] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

81] All roads lead to Rome

82] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

83] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

84] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

85] A golden key opens every door

86] There is no royal road to learning

87] Every shoe fits not every foot

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

89] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

90] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

91] Lavishness is not generosity

92] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

93] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

94] The fairest silk is soonest stained

95] Never grieve for what you cannot help

96] The weakest goes to the wall

97] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

98] Everyone to his taste

99] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

100] A gift much expected is paid, not given