Famous Proverbs

1] Affection blinds reason

2] The best fish swim near the bottom

3] God’s help is better than the early rising

4] Rome was not built in a day

5] They brag most who can do least

6] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

7] Love can find a way

8] Might overcome right.

9] Better sit still than rise and fall

10] A fault once denied is twice committed

11] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

12] In indecision itself, grief is present.

13] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

14] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

15] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

16] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

17] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

18] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

19] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

20] Half a word is enough for a wise man

21] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

22] The more you get, the more you want

23] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

24] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

25] A closed mouth catches no files

26] Better learn late than never

27] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

28] All our pomp the earth covers

29] Water is the king of food

30] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

31] Every path has a puddle

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

33] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

34] Cowards die many times before their deaths

35] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

36] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

37] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

38] A true friend is forever a friend

39] An angry man is not fit to pray

40] No choice amongst stinking fish

41] Out of debt, out of danger

42] A good face is a letter of recommendation

43] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

44] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

45] Work smart; don’t work hard

46] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

47] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

48] Everything would fain live

49] He that has no money needs no purse

50] All things that great men do are well done

51] What is worse than ill luck?

52] Too much cunning undoes

53] Spare the rod and spoil the child

54] An old horse knows the route

55] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

56] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

57] Heaven helps those who help themselves

58] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

59] Fish begins to stink at the head

60] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

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

62] Danger makes men devout

63] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

64] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

65] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

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

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

68] Praises fill not the belly

69] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

70] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

71] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

72] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

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

74] No man so good but another may be as good as he

75] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

76] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

77] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

78] No one betrays himself by silence

79] A man in debt is caught in a net

80] New lords, new laws

81] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

82] Better an open enemy than a false friend

83] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

84] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

85] A fool and his money are soon parted

86] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

87] It is more blessed to give than to receive

88] It is best to be on the safe side

89] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

90] He who teaches learns

91] A rolling stone gathers no moss

92] Wrong has no warrant

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

94] There is no smoke without fire

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

96] A loveless life is a living death

97] He who sows, trusts in God

98] One cannot love and be wise

99] Silence is a woman’s best garment

100] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step