Famous Proverbs

1] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

2] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

3] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

4] Fingers were made before forks

5] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

6] The greatest talkers are the least doers

7] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

8] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

9] He would command must serve

10] He who excuses himself accuses himself

11] He that talks much, errs much

12] Covetousness is the root of all evil

13] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

14] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

15] Honesty is ill to thrive by

16] One is what one eats

17] Every path has a puddle

18] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

19] All for one, and one for all.

20] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

21] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

22] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

23] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

24] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

25] Wife and Children are bills of charges

26] A little learning is dangerous thing

27] The good intention excuses the bad action

28] A constant guest is never welcome

29] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

30] They are rich who have true friends

31] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

32] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

33] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

34] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

35] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

36] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

37] Many hands make light work

38] One fool praises another

39] Better to ask the way than go astray.

40] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

41] Sorrow will pay no debt

42] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

43] God is always on the side of the big battalions

44] Far fowls have fair feather

45] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

46] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

47] Six feet of earth make all men equal

48] He may find fault that cannot mend

49] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

50] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

51] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

52] Praise is always pleasant

53] He that obey cannot command

54] Fair play’s a jewel

55] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

56] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

57] He who envies admits his inferiority

58] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

59] First come, first served

60] A willful man will have his way

61] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

62] Too long burden makes weary bones

63] The tongue talks at the heads cost

64] Habit is second nature

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

66] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

67] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

68] Great talkers are never great doers

69] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

70] A good tongue is a good weapon

71] They brag most who can do least

72] Make hay while the sun shines

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

74] The tide must be taken when it comes

75] There is truth in wine

76] It is good fishing in troubled waters

77] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

78] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

79] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

80] A good Conscience is the best divinity

81] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

82] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

83] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

84] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

85] Seek and you shall find

86] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

87] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

88] What’s done is done

89] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

90] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

91] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

92] Love is blind

93] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

94] In everything consider the end

95] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

96] When the cat is away, the mice will play

97] Fear of death is worse than death itself

98] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

99] Words and feathers the wind carries away

100] Look on the bright side