Famous Proverbs

1] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

2] Much science, much sorrow

3] There is no fool like an old fool

4] No man fears what he has seen grow

5] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

6] That which proves too much proves nothing

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

8] From word to deed is a great space

9] A rolling stone gathers no moss

10] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

11] The labour we delight in physics pain

12] He that will thrive must rise at five

13] A merchant that gains not, loses

14] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

15] Much science, much sorrow

16] All heiresses are beautiful.

17] Will is the cause of woe

18] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

19] Hope is the poor man’s bread

20] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

21] No road is long with good company

22] Love delights in praise

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

24] Go not to hell for company

25] Better sit still than rise and fall

26] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

27] You never know what you can do till you try

28] The exception proves the rule

29] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

30] Every man to his trade.

31] Alms never make poor

32] A good name is better than riches

33] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

34] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

35] One lie makes many

36] Thrift is a great revenue

37] Wiles help weak folk

38] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

39] The result justifies the deed

40] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

41] Who greases his way travels easily

42] Fair face, foul heart

43] The pen is the tongue of the hand

44] There is death in the pot.

45] Take the tone of the company you are in

46] Still waters run deep

47] So many countries, so many customs

48] Live and let live

49] Mere wishes are silly fishes

50] Dreams go by contraries

51] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

52] The company makes the feast

53] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

54] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

55] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

56] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

57] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

58] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

59] Jesters do oft prove prophets

60] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

61] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

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

63] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

64] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

65] Good is good but better carries it

66] What’s done is done

67] Wine unveils the words of the heart

68] All must be as God will

69] He that eats least eats most

70] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

71] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

72] The value of money is having it.

73] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

74] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

75] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

76] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

77] You never know what you can do till you try

78] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

79] The good intention excuses the bad action

80] A crowd is not company

81] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

82] Take things as they come

83] No man can serve two masters

84] Between two stools you fall to the ground

85] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

86] A bad workman always blames his tools

87] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

88] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

89] Man does what he can, and God what he will

90] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

91] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

92] The hand that gives, gathers

93] Children and fools cannot lie.

94] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

95] Tempt not a desperate man

96] How forceful are right words

97] He who last, laughs longest.

98] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

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

100] Gifts blind the eyes.