Famous Proverbs

1] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

2] Where there is whispering there is lying

3] A healthy man is a successful man

4] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

5] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

6] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

7] Every dog is a lion at home

8] Do as the friar says, not as he does

9] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

10] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

11] East or west, home is best

12] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

13] No choice amongst stinking fish

14] Every medal has its reverse

15] Love cannot be compelled

16] A good name is better than a golden girdle

17] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

18] Better beg than steal.

19] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

20] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

21] None but the brave deserves the fair

22] What has been, may be

23] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

24] Accidents will happen

25] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

26] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

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

28] Cheats never prosper

29] The borrower is servant to the lender

30] It is more pain to do nothing than something

31] Rats know the ways of rats

32] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

33] Dead men don’t bite

34] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

35] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

36] Safety lies in the middle course

37] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

38] An angry man is not fit to pray

39] A rich man can do nothing wrong

40] Business is business

41] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

42] Dirty linen should be washed at home

43] Of one ill come many

44] Asking costs little

45] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

46] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

47] The falling drops hollow the stone

48] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

49] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

50] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

51] Think on the end before you begin

52] Little wealth, little care

53] Long looked for, comes at last

54] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

55] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

56] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

57] It never rains it pours

58] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

59] Money is power

60] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

61] The mob has many heads but no brains

62] A hungry man smells meat afar off

63] Curiosity killed the cat.

64] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

65] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

66] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

67] Handsome is as handsome does

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

69] A living dog is better than a dead lion

70] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

71] The lion had need of the mouse

72] Beauty opens locked doors

73] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

74] Morning dreams come true

75] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

76] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

77] Lavishness is not generosity

78] The pen is the tongue of the hand

79] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

80] An evil life is a kind of death.

81] Remember, you are but a man

82] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

83] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

84] Don’t meet trouble half-way

85] Words fly, writings remain

86] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

87] Lend never that thing you needed most

88] The greatest talkers are the least doers

89] Habit is second nature

90] The Pen is mightier than the sword

91] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

92] Wise men propose, and fools determine

93] From word to deed is a great space

94] The deed comes back upon the doer.

95] Desires are nourished by delays

96] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

97] No feast lasts forever.

98] Conscience does make cowards of us all

99] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

100] One reason is as good as fifty