Famous Proverbs

1] Friends are thieves of time

2] The result justifies the deed

3] Many a little makes a mickle

4] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

5] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

6] The wisest of the wise may err.

7] He who does no good, does evil enough

8] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

9] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

10] The labourer is worthy of his hire

11] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

12] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

13] They say so’ is half a lie

14] Riches along make no men happy

15] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

16] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

17] Of a new prince, new bondage

18] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

19] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

20] He who comes first, grinds first.

21] Hunger is the teacher of many

22] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

23] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

24] Experience must be bought

25] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

26] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

27] Money has no smell

28] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

29] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

30] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

31] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

32] The best things carried to excess are wrong

33] Love conquers all

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

35] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

36] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

37] Many eyes upon the king

38] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

39] Slow and steady wins the race

40] No honest man ever repented his honesty

41] They are rich who have true friends

42] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

43] Content is better than riches

44] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

45] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

46] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

47] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

48] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

49] Jesters do oft prove prophets

50] Whatever man has done, man can do

51] Slow but sure wins the race

52] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

53] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

54] Like breeds like

55] Where there is whispering there is lying

56] A constant guest is never welcome

57] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

58] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

59] Sow thin and mow thin

60] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

61] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

62] Patient waiters are no losers

63] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

64] An honest good look covers many faults.

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

66] It is not every question that deserves an answer

67] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

68] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

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

70] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

71] The age of miracles is past

72] Great gain makes easy work

73] Possibilities are infinite

74] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

75] The weeds overgrow the corn.

76] Better learn late than never

77] It takes all sorts to make a world

78] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

79] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

80] Big fish eat little fish

81] Nature is the true law

82] Words cut more than swords

83] He who sows, trusts in God

84] All must be as God will

85] Those near the temple deride the gods

86] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

87] Circumstances alter cases

88] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

89] As long lives a merry man as a sad

90] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

91] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

92] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

93] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

94] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

95] Too far east is west

96] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

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

98] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

99] A miss is as good as a mile

100] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb