Famous Proverbs

1] Honest is the best policy

2] A little help is worth a deal of pity

3] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

4] Truth is stranger than fiction

5] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

6] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

7] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

8] Love will find a way

9] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

10] Error cannot be defended but by error

11] A rich man can do nothing wrong

12] Do not triumph before the victory

13] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

14] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

15] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

16] Plain dealing is a jewel

17] Misfortune does not always come to injure

18] The owl thinks her own young fairest

19] We shall lie all alike in our graves

20] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

21] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

22] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

23] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

24] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

25] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

26] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

27] Years know more than books

28] Mere wishes are silly fishes

29] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

30] Good wine needs no bush

31] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

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

33] The garment worn determines how one is served

34] One is what one eats

35] Experience is the mother of wisdom

36] Fortune favours fools

37] Young colts will canter.

38] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

39] The best fish swim near the bottom

40] A bad workman always blames his tools

41] Saying is one thing, and doing another

42] Little and often fills the purse

43] Birds once snared fear all bushes

44] Desert and reward seldom keep company

45] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

46] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

47] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

48] None can guess the jewel by the casket

49] Facts are stubborn things

50] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

51] Content is more than a kingdom

52] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

53] Better beg than steal.

54] A wicked man is his own hell

55] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

56] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

57] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

58] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

59] An empty sack cannot stand upright

60] The receiver is as bad as the thief

61] An Englishman’s home is his castle

62] Never do things by halves

63] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

64] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

65] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

66] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

67] Time and tide wait for no man

68] The weeds overgrow the corn.

69] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

70] Speech is silver, silence is golden

71] Honesty is the best policy

72] Manners make the man

73] By falling we learn to go safely

74] Take the tone of the company you are in

75] To err is human

76] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

77] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

78] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

79] After the extreme of cold comes spring

80] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

81] Ambition loses many a man

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

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

84] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

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

86] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

87] Kill two birds with one stone

88] A good paymaster never wants workmen

89] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

90] Shrouds have no pockets

91] Anything will fit a naked man.

92] Two heads are better than one

93] A man of courage never wants weapons

94] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

95] Every commodity has its discommodity

96] Money isn’t everything

97] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

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

99] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

100] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.