Famous Proverbs

1] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

2] It is the unexpected that always happens

3] Pardon makes offenders

4] Stolen sweets are sweeter

5] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

6] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

7] Give credit where credit is due

8] Conscience does make cowards of us all

9] Money has no smell

10] The eye is bigger than the belly

11] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

12] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

13] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

14] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

15] When angry, count a hundred

16] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

17] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

18] A good servant must have good wages

19] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

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

21] When the word is out it belongs to another

22] Don’t put the cart before the horse

23] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

24] The labourer is worthy of his hire

25] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

26] Loyalty is worth more than money

27] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

28] Moderation in all things

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

30] There is no fool like an old fool

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

32] One kindness is the price of another

33] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

34] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

35] Cut your coat according to your cloth

36] Virtue is its own reward

37] He who demands does not command

38] Light grows the burden which is well borne

39] You can’t win them all

40] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

41] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

42] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

43] Innocence is no protection

44] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

45] It takes two to make a quarrel

46] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

47] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

48] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

49] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

50] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

51] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

52] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

53] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

54] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

55] Debt is an evil conscience

56] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

57] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

58] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

59] God’s help is better than the early rising

60] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

61] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

62] Let us do evil that good may come

63] Hunger is the teacher of many

64] He is lifeless that is faultless

65] Poor men’s words have little weight

66] Old cattle breed not

67] A man’s wealth is his enemy

68] Give credit where credit is due

69] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

70] There’s always room at the top

71] A man of courage never wants weapons

72] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

73] The coward threatens only when he is safe

74] Many hands make light work

75] Words fly, writings remain

76] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

77] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

78] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

79] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

80] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

81] Everything in moderation.

82] Desires are nourished by delays

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

84] The labour we delight in physics pain

85] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

86] Know thyself

87] A man can do no more than he can

88] He that is born a fool is never cured

89] It is useless to flog a dead horse

90] Travel broadens the mind

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

92] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

93] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

94] The world is full of fools

95] Hope often deludes the foolish man

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

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

98] Evil to him who evil thinks.

99] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

100] Idle folks lack no excuses