Famous Proverbs

1] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

2] Do not limp before the lame

3] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

4] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

5] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

6] Nature does nothing in vain

7] Better unborn than untaught

8] He that praises himself, spatters himself

9] Variety is charming

10] First impressions are most lasting

11] A woman’s work is never done

12] Nature does nothing in vain

13] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

14] Money is the sinew of affairs

15] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

16] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

17] Even a worm will turn

18] Virtue carries a lean purse

19] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

20] Advice when most needed is least heeded

21] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

22] Good to begin well, better to end well.

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

24] Beauty is only skin deep

25] Don’t cry for the moon

26] Time and tide wait for no man

27] There is many a fair thing full false

28] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

29] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

30] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

31] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

32] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

33] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

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

35] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

36] A man can do no more than he can

37] What may be done at any time is done at no time

38] Variety takes away satiety

39] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

40] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

41] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

42] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

43] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

44] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

45] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

46] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

47] You may know by a handful the whole sack

48] Never too late to repent

49] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

50] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

51] Marriage is a lottery

52] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

53] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

54] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

55] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

56] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

57] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

58] The best wine comes from an old vessel

59] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

60] A man’s wealth is his enemy

61] The receiver is as bad as the thief

62] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

63] He who comes first, grinds first.

64] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

65] The good is often the enemy of the best

66] Nothing succeeds like success

67] There is nothing lost by civility

68] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

69] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

70] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

71] It is good to follow the old fox

72] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

73] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

74] Never too late to repent

75] One is not smelt where all stink

76] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

77] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

78] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

79] He who considers too much will perform little.

80] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

81] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

82] Black will take no other hue

83] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

84] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

85] United we stand, divided we fall

86] The resolved mind has no cares

87] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

88] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

89] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

90] An old ox makes a straight furrow

91] Strike while the iron is hot

92] He laughs best who laughs last

93] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

94] A little help is worth a deal of pity

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

96] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

97] Where god will help, nothing does harm

98] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

99] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

100] He who teaches learns