Famous Proverbs

1] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

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

3] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

4] Make the best of a bad job

5] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

6] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

7] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

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

9] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

10] Busiest men find the most time

11] Laws were made to be broke

12] The king can do no wrong

13] Self-praise is no recommendation

14] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

15] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

16] No man limps because another is hurt

17] Despair gives courage to a coward

18] An ill tongue may do much

19] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

20] Every law has a loophole

21] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

22] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

23] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

24] Penny and penny laid up will be many

25] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

26] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

27] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

28] He that has an ill name is half hanged

29] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

30] Too many cooks spoil the broth

31] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

32] No man can serve two masters

33] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

34] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

35] Do as the friar says, not as he does

36] Every man is his own worst enemy

37] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

38] Nature surpasses art

39] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

40] Laughter makes good blood

41] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

42] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

43] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

44] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

45] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

46] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

47] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

48] Weapons breed peace

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

50] It is ill jesting with edged tools

51] Rich folk have many friends

52] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

53] Sickness soaks the purse

54] Do right and fear no man

55] Advice when most needed is least heeded

56] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

57] The tongue stings

58] Extremes meet

59] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

60] Money makes the man

61] No convenience without its inconvenience

62] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

63] Fair face, foul heart

64] The early bird catches the worm

65] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

66] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

67] What can’t be cured must be endured

68] What the king wills, that the law wills

69] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

70] Men are not to be measured in inches

71] Great hopes make great men

72] Nothing is so certain as death

73] He that blows best, bears away the horn

74] Practice makes perfect

75] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

76] Don’t take your harp to the party

77] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

78] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

79] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

80] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

81] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

82] Little by little and bit by bit.

83] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

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

85] Never do evil that good may come of it

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

87] There is no time like the present

88] Double charge will rive a cannon

89] Better be alone than in bad company

90] Not even Hercules could contend against two

91] Good ware makes quick market

92] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

93] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

94] Love cannot be compelled

95] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

96] It will be the same a hundred years hence

97] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

98] You cannot have it both ways

99] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

100] Wise men silent, fools talk