Famous Proverbs

1] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

2] The hole calls the thief

3] Words are but wind

4] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

5] Variety takes away satiety

6] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

7] Things are only worth one makes them worth

8] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

9] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

10] No day so clear but has dark clouds

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

12] Mirth without measure is madness

13] More than enough is too much

14] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

15] Gossiping and lying go together

16] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

17] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

18] History repeats itself

19] Dead men don’t bite

20] Men are not angles

21] Homer sometimes nods

22] He laughs best who laughs last

23] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

24] More have repented speech than silence

25] All lay loads on a willing horse

26] Death does not recognize strength

27] Never refuse a good offer

28] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

29] The tailor makes the man

30] Affection blinds reason

31] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

32] Put out your tubs when it is raining

33] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

34] Too much money makes one mad

35] Opportunity makes the thief

36] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

37] He who does no good, does evil enough

38] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

39] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

40] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

41] Lavishness is not generosity

42] Flesh is frail

43] Good fences make good neighbours

44] All cats are grey in the dark

45] Great trees keep down the little ones

46] Nearest the heart comes out first

47] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

48] Better eye sore than al blind

49] Self do, self have

50] Stolen sweets are sweeter

51] Content is more than a kingdom

52] We don’t get something for nothing

53] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

54] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

55] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

56] There is no rose without a thorn

57] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

58] Garbage in, garbage out

59] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

60] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

61] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

62] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

63] Gifts blind the eyes.

64] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

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

66] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

67] The best is often the enemy of the good

68] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

69] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

70] Easy come, easy go

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

72] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

73] Necessity knows no law

74] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

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

76] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

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

78] No good building without a good foundation.

79] What is a workman without his tools?

80] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

81] An old ox makes a straight furrow

82] Practice what you preach

83] Do not kick against the pricks

84] One master in a house is enough

85] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

86] You may know by a handful the whole sack

87] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

88] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

89] Praise is always pleasant

90] Little by little and bit by bit.

91] It is the first step that is troublesome

92] They brag most who can do least

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

94] One hand washes the other

95] Never too late to learn

96] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

97] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

98] They that dance must pay the fiddler

99] Too far east is west

100] Wise men propose, and fools determine