Famous Proverbs

1] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

2] Variety is charming

3] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

4] A great city, a great solitude

5] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

6] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

7] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

8] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

9] The wish is father to the thought

10] Keep some till further more come

11] A good friend is my nearest relation

12] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

13] The Pen is mightier than the sword

14] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

15] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

16] The wisest of the wise may err.

17] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

18] New meat begets a new appetite

19] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

20] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

21] The best things carried to excess are wrong

22] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

23] A fool always rushes to the fore.

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

25] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

26] A goose drinks as much as gander

27] First things first

28] A woman’s work is never done

29] He that has plenty of goods will have more

30] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

31] Experience must be bought

32] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

33] Example is better than precept

34] Exchange is no robbery

35] He stands not surely that never slips

36] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

37] An empty sack cannot stand upright

38] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

39] Even silence may be eloquent

40] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

41] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

42] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

43] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

44] It is not every question that deserves an answer

45] What’s done cannot be undone

46] One can’t help many, but many can help one

47] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

48] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

49] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

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

51] Wise men silent, fools talk

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

53] There is nothing permanent except change

54] The word is far him who has patience

55] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

56] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

57] Be still and have thy will

58] There is nothing that costs less than civility

59] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

60] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

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

62] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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

64] You cannot unscramble eggs

65] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

66] More haste, less speed

67] No man is his craft’s master the first day

68] Go while the going is good

69] He may find fault that cannot mend

70] He that does most at once, does least

71] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

72] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

73] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

74] He is rich that has few wants

75] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

76] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

77] He that has good money, gives few alms

78] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

79] Life means strife

80] Every oak has been an acorn

81] The love of money is the root of all evil

82] Old habits die hard

83] Let bygones be bygones

84] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

85] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

86] Misery loves company.

87] Bad news travels fast

88] Remember, you are but a man

89] A rich man can do nothing wrong

90] Hunger is the teacher of many

91] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

92] Never too late to learn

93] Many hands make light work

94] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

95] Men are not to be measured in inches

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

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

98] Fair face, foul heart

99] It is best to be on the safe side

100] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly