Famous Proverbs

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

2] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

3] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

4] Young colts will canter.

5] What costs little is little esteemed

6] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

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

8] Cheap is dear in the long run.

9] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

10] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

11] In fair weather prepare for foul

12] Men are blind in their own cause

13] Good fences make good neighbours

14] He that burns most, shines most

15] Morning dreams come true

16] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

17] Practice makes perfect

18] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

19] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

20] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

21] Penny and penny laid up will be many

22] Silence and thinking can no man offend

23] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

24] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

25] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

26] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

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

28] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

29] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

30] Necessity is the mother of invention

31] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

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

33] Dead men don’t bite

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

35] Bad excuses are worse than none.

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

37] The mob tramples on the coward

38] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

39] The tongue talks at the heads cost

40] God sends cold after Clothes

41] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

42] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

43] There is nothing like being on the safe side

44] One kindness is the price of another

45] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

46] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

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

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

49] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

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

51] He stands not surely that never slips

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

53] A fool and his money are soon parted

54] A good tongue is a good weapon

55] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

56] Friendship should not be all on one side

57] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

58] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

59] The greatest step is that out of doors

60] Christmas comes but once a year

61] All’s well that ends well

62] A constant guest is never welcome

63] A good garden may have some ill weeds

64] There is no place like home

65] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

66] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

67] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

68] There is no smoke without fire

69] Often and little eating makes a man fat

70] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

71] Small is the seed of every greatness

72] Old foxes want no tutors

73] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

74] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

75] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

76] Flesh is frail

77] The lion had need of the mouse

78] Better be born lucky than wise.

79] It is easy to be wise after the event

80] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

81] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

82] He that is absent is soon forgotten

83] Kind hearts are more than coronets

84] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

85] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

86] Make hay while the sun shines

87] Tomorrow is another day

88] He is an ill husband who is not missed

89] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

90] It is no use crying over spilt milk

91] Fools live poor to die rich

92] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

93] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

94] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

95] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

96] There is no fool like an old fool

97] Frugality is the mother of virtue

98] Common fame is seldom to blame

99] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

100] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth