Famous Proverbs

1] Good clothes open all doors

2] Better children weep than old men

3] Good broth may be made in an old pot

4] In the land of hope there is never any winter

5] One sword keeps another in the sheath

6] Things are only worth one makes them worth

7] Familiarity breeds contempt

8] No man can serve two masters

9] Gifts blind the eyes.

10] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

11] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

12] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

13] None can guess the jewel by the casket

14] You cannot have it both ways

15] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

16] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

17] Good ware makes quick market

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

19] Money makes the man

20] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

21] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

22] Penny and penny laid up will be many

23] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

24] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

25] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

26] He would command must serve

27] We live laws, not by examples

28] Death keeps no calendar

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

30] Cheap is dear in the long run.

31] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

32] Men are not to be measured in inches

33] There’s a time and place for everything

34] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

35] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

36] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

37] Every commodity has its discommodity

38] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

39] Nature does nothing in vain

40] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

41] Bear and forbear

42] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

43] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

44] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

45] Lookers-on see more than players

46] Never buy a pig in a poke

47] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

48] Every law has a loophole

49] The faulty stands on his guard

50] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

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

52] Jesters do oft prove prophets

53] New meat begets a new appetite

54] All heiresses are beautiful.

55] What costs little is little esteemed

56] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

57] The value of money is having it.

58] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

59] The falling drops hollow the stone

60] Content is better than riches

61] You may know by a handful the whole sack

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

63] Tell a lie and stick to it.

64] Experience is the best teacher

65] Never grieve for what you cannot help

66] A miss is as good as a mile

67] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

68] More haste, less speed

69] The exception proves the rule

70] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

71] Coming events cast their shadows before

72] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

73] Nothing is so certain as death

74] Change of pasture makes fat calves

75] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

76] A merchant that gains not, loses

77] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

78] Young saint, old devil.

79] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

80] He is an ill husband who is not missed

81] Union (or Unity) is strength

82] The borrower is servant to the lender

83] It is more blessed to give than to receive

84] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

85] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

86] Take the tone of the company you are in

87] Put not the bucket too often in the well

88] There is many a true word spoken in jest

89] After the extreme of cold comes spring

90] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

91] First impressions are most lasting

92] Great hopes make great men

93] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

94] Poverty is not a crime

95] Love is never without jealousy

96] An oak is not felled at one stroke

97] Make hay while the sun shines

98] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

99] It is ill striving against the stream

100] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable