Famous Proverbs

1] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

2] Wishes can never fill a sack

3] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

4] There’s a black sheep in every flock

5] Either mend or end

6] Do not kick against the pricks

7] He that has good money, gives few alms

8] He laughs best who laughs last

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

10] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

11] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

12] Too much money makes one mad

13] Love laughs at locksmiths

14] A good garden may have some ill weeds

15] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

16] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

17] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

18] The more you have the more you want

19] Soon hot, soon cold

20] A loveless life is a living death

21] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

22] Nature is the true law

23] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

24] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

25] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

26] Learning is the eye of the mind

27] Content is better than riches

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

29] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

30] Everything in moderation.

31] Soft fire makes sweet malt

32] Extremity of right is wrong

33] A wise man hears one word and understands two

34] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

35] He that has no shame has no conscience

36] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

37] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

38] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

39] In peace, prepare for war

40] Don’t ride the high horse

41] A jack of all traders is master of none

42] In fair weather prepare for foul

43] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

44] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

45] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

46] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

47] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

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

49] What is deferred is not abandoned

50] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

51] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

52] Homo is a common name to all men.

53] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

54] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

55] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

56] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

57] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

58] To err is human; to forgive, divine

59] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

60] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

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

62] Vice makes virtue shine

63] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

64] Health and money go far

65] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

66] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

67] The poor suffer all the wrong

68] A rich man’s joke is always funny

69] The good is often the enemy of the best

70] Death alone can kill hope

71] It is more blessed to give than to receive

72] Every may be has a may not be

73] First catch your hare

74] Patience is the remedy of the world

75] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

76] The devil looks after his own

77] An old man is a bed full of bones

78] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

79] Where there is peace, there is blessing

80] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

81] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

82] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

83] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

84] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

85] He is wise who looks ahead

86] What must be must be

87] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

88] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

89] A good heart conquers ill fortune

90] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

91] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

92] Honour is the reward of virtue

93] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

94] Good counsel never comes amiss

95] Manners and money make a gentleman

96] Charity begins at home.

97] Divide and rule

98] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

99] Love sees no fault

100] More haste, less speed