Famous Proverbs

1] Remember, you are but a man

2] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

3] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

4] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

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

6] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

7] Shrouds have no pockets

8] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

9] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

10] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

11] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

12] The sun shines upon all alike.

13] Much learning makes men mad

14] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

15] When meat is in anger is out

16] Valour delights in the test

17] If you have known one, you have known them all

18] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

19] No wrong without a remedy

20] None can guess the jewel by the casket

21] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

22] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

23] He that has plenty of goods will have more

24] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

25] Better at home than a mile from it

26] There are more men threatened than stricken

27] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

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

29] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

30] The righteous man sins before an open chest

31] The great would have none great, and the little all little

32] The highest branch is not the safest roost

33] None but the brave deserves the fair

34] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

35] All griefs with bread are less

36] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

37] Beauty opens locked doors

38] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

39] No land without stones, or meat without bones

40] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

41] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

42] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

43] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

44] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

45] A good lawyer must be a great liar

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

47] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

48] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

49] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

50] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

51] Necessity breaks iron

52] The pot calls the kettle black

53] Conscience does make cowards of us all

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

55] The slowest barker is the surest biter

56] The great fish eat up the small

57] Don’t cry for the moon

58] He that wants health wants all

59] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

60] Weapons breed peace

61] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

62] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

63] Second thoughts are best

64] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

65] Fool’s haste is no speed

66] Pleasant hours fly past

67] Every shoe fits not every foot

68] Gluttony kills more than the sword

69] His bark is worse than his bite

70] There is safety in numbers

71] No convenience without its inconvenience

72] No man is wise at all times

73] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

74] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

75] Hitch your wagon to a star

76] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

77] It is too late to look up after you have collided

78] The best of friends must part

79] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

80] God makes the back for the burden

81] Dead men tell no tales

82] A word before is worth two behind

83] The value of money is having it.

84] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

85] Discontent is the first step in progress

86] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

87] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

88] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

89] Lend never that thing you needed most

90] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

91] Misfortune makes foes of friends

92] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

93] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

94] First think, and then speak

95] Many eyes upon the king

96] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

97] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

98] Great actions speak minds

99] An evil life is a kind of death.

100] Novelty always appears handsome