Famous Proverbs

1] Every commodity has its discommodity

2] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

3] To err is human

4] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

5] The ant had wings to her hurt

6] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

7] Dying is as natural as living

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

9] We live laws, not by examples

10] It is too late to husband when all is spent

11] A good name is better than a golden girdle

12] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

13] Not even Hercules could contend against two

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

15] The good is often the enemy of the best

16] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

17] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

18] First things first

19] Better the foot slip than the tongue

20] Seek and you shall find

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

22] Don’t try to run before you walk

23] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

24] Bad luck often brings good luck

25] God is always on the side of the big battalions

26] Care brings grey hair.

27] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

28] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

29] The more you have the more you want

30] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

31] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

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

33] Make haste slowly

34] Praise no man till he is dead.

35] He who leaps high must take a long run

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

37] There is nothing that costs less than civility

38] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

39] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

40] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

41] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

42] Do it now

43] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

44] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

45] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

46] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

47] Circumstances alter cases

48] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

49] The last drop makes the cup run over

50] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

51] Let like mate with like

52] Never too late to learn

53] Nature is the true law

54] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

55] Wrong has no warrant

56] Great minds think alike

57] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

58] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

59] Speech is silver, silence is golden

60] A man can die but once

61] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

62] Every man has his faults

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

64] Put not the bucket too often in the well

65] Wink at small faults

66] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

67] It is too late to look up after you have collided

68] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

69] Beware of no man more than himself

70] A good wife is a good prize

71] Her that is down need fear no fall

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

73] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

74] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

75] There is a black sheep in every flock

76] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

77] Words fly, writings remain

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

79] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

80] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

81] Wishes can never fill a sack

82] There are more men threatened than stricken

83] A jack of all traders is master of none

84] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

85] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

86] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

87] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

88] Debt is an evil conscience

89] Hasty work, double work,

90] God’s lambs will play.

91] Money is the root of all evil

92] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

93] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

94] Even silence may be eloquent

95] Every man praises his own wares

96] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

97] The slowest barker is the surest biter

98] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

99] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

100] No convenience without its inconvenience