Famous Proverbs

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

2] The company makes the feast

3] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

4] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

5] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

6] A change is as good as rest

7] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

8] Prospect is often better than possession

9] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

10] Soon gotten, soon spent

11] Good luck beats early rising

12] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

13] Kill two birds with one stone

14] New things are fair

15] Ale will make a cat speak

16] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

17] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

18] Cleanliness is next to godliness

19] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

20] Everything is good in its season

21] There is truth in wine

22] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

23] Fine feathers make fine birds.

24] Nature does nothing in vain

25] The good intention excuses the bad action

26] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

27] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

28] A gift much expected is paid, not given

29] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

30] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

31] All’s well that ends well

32] Time flies

33] A good garden may have some ill weeds

34] Make the best of a bad job

35] One reason is as good as fifty

36] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

37] Sweet are the uses of adversity

38] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

39] A man may learn wit every day.

40] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

41] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

42] Beauty fades like a flower.

43] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

44] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

45] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

46] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

47] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

48] New meat begets a new appetite

49] Don’t cry before you are hurt

50] Love conquers all

51] Do not kick against the pricks

52] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

53] Delays are not denials

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

55] Truth is stranger than fiction

56] Patient men with the day.

57] In haste is error

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

59] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

60] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

61] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

62] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

63] Virtue is the only true nobility

64] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

65] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

66] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

67] Riches along make no men happy

68] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

69] He who serves is not free

70] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

71] A fool and his money are soon parted

72] Little by little and bit by bit.

73] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

74] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

75] Fair exchange is no robbery

76] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

77] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

78] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

79] The best things carried to excess are wrong

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

81] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

82] Sorrow will pay no debt

83] Words bind men

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

85] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

86] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

87] Slow help is no help

88] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

89] Well begun is half done.

90] Grin and bear it

91] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

92] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

93] Love is sweet torment

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

95] Better be a fool than a knave

96] A monk can’t shave his own head

97] You can’t tell a book by its cover

98] Love will go through stone walls

99] Great barkers are no biters

100] The beaten road is the safest