Famous Proverbs

1] Wise men propose, and fools determine

2] See which way the cat jumps

3] No pain, no cure

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

5] Divine grace was never slow

6] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

7] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

8] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

9] He gives twice who gives quickly

10] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

11] The beaten road is the safest

12] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

13] Misfortune makes foes of friends

14] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

15] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

16] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

17] Great gain makes easy work

18] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

19] Even a worm will turn

20] You never know what you can do till you try

21] Dirty linen should be washed at home

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

23] The good is often the enemy of the best

24] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

25] Long absent, soon forgotten

26] Plain dealing is a jewel

27] An old dog barks not in vain

28] No flying without wings.

29] Some are wise and some are otherwise

30] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

31] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

32] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

33] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

34] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

35] The bull must be taken by the horns

36] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

37] Every bean has its black

38] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

39] Kill two birds with one stone

40] A healthy man is a successful man

41] Prevention is better than cure

42] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

43] Where god will help, nothing does harm

44] Handsome is as handsome does

45] God provides for him that trusts

46] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

47] There is no time like the present

48] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

49] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

50] Love is blind

51] No man is infallible

52] Too long burden makes weary bones

53] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

54] If today will not, tomorrow may

55] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

56] An oak is not felled at one stroke

57] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

58] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

59] There is no fool like an old fool

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

61] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

62] The best of men are but men at best.

63] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

64] Bold men have generous hearts

65] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

66] Debt is an evil conscience

67] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

68] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

69] We live laws, not by examples

70] None can guess the jewel by the casket

71] A single rose does not mean spring

72] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

73] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

74] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

75] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

76] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

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

78] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

79] Where there’s a will there’s a way

80] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

81] Good words are worth much and cost little

82] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

83] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

84] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

85] Nature is the true law

86] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

87] Work smart; don’t work hard

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

89] Do not limp before the lame

90] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

91] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

92] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

93] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

94] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

95] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

96] It is a great victory that comes without blood

97] He that promises too much means nothing

98] Weeds need no sowing

99] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

100] Gold is tried in the fire