Famous Proverbs

1] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

2] No road is long with good company

3] He who teaches learns

4] All’s fish that comes to the net

5] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

6] Divide and rule

7] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

8] Hope often deludes the foolish man

9] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

10] He that speaks not, God hears not

11] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

12] Hope is grief’s best music

13] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

14] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

15] Time and tide wait for no man

16] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

17] Needs must when the devil drives

18] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

19] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

20] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

21] The road to hell is paved with good action

22] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

23] A joke’s a very serious thing

24] A man’s mother is his other God

25] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

26] Never too late to repent

27] The best things carried to excess are wrong

28] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

29] Little and often fills the purse

30] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

31] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

32] The child is father of the man

33] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

34] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

35] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

36] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

37] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

38] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

39] The good is often the enemy of the best

40] Youth will have its course.

41] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

42] The devil dances in an empty pocket

43] Every groom is a king at home

44] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

45] Desire beautifies what is ugly

46] Better say noting than no to the purpose

47] The tide must be taken when it comes

48] There is nothing that costs less than civility

49] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

50] Better an apple given than eaten

51] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

52] Lovers are madmen

53] As you bake, so shall you eat.

54] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

55] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

56] A black hen lays a white egg

57] Past cure, past care

58] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

59] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

60] Marriages are made in heaven

61] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

62] Silence is also speech

63] A beggar can never be bankrupt

64] The result justifies the deed

65] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

66] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

67] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

68] Little pitchers have big ears.

69] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

70] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

71] There is no redemption from hell

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

73] More have repented speech than silence

74] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

75] Work smart; don’t work hard

76] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

77] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

78] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

79] Long looked for, comes at last

80] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

81] Men make houses, women make homes

82] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

83] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

84] Sickness shows us what we are

85] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

86] One may change the place but not the mind.

87] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

88] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

89] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

90] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

91] Half a loaf is better than do bread

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

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

94] The tailor makes the man

95] Go not to hell for company

96] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

97] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

98] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

99] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

100] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice