Famous Proverbs

1] We live by laws, not by examples

2] The best things carried to excess are wrong

3] A true man and a thief think not the same

4] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

5] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

6] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

7] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

8] No remedy but patience

9] Advice when most needed is least heeded

10] A good husband makes a good wife

11] What is worth doing is worth doing well

12] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

13] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

14] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

15] Light burden I heavy if far borne

16] Men are blind in their own cause

17] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

18] Excessive happiness produces pain

19] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

20] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

21] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

22] It is the unexpected that always happens

23] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

24] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

25] As you brew, so shall you drink.

26] The course of true love never did run smooth

27] The golden age was never the present age

28] Every why has a wherefore

29] Confess and be hanged

30] He would command must serve

31] First creep, then walk

32] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

33] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

34] Double charge will rive a cannon

35] Slow help is no help

36] Divide and rule

37] Take the tone of the company you are in

38] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

39] There is no place like home

40] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

41] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

42] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

43] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

44] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

45] The axe falls on a straight tree first

46] Money is power

47] That which is easily done is soon believed

48] The best things in life are free

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

50] Everything is good in its season

51] Better to be safe than sorry.

52] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

53] Put out your tubs when it is raining

54] The first blow is half the battle

55] A fool may give a wise man counsel

56] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

57] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

58] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

59] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

60] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

61] Adam’s ale is the best brew

62] One must howl with the wolves

63] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

64] Love will go through stone walls

65] Bear with evil and expect good

66] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

67] Hunger is sharper than the sword

68] There is nothing that costs less than civility

69] It is more blessed to give than to receive

70] Money refused loses its brightness

71] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

72] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

73] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

74] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

75] Now is now, and then was then

76] Slow but sure wins the race

77] Two wrongs do not make a right

78] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

79] Love laughs at locksmiths

80] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

81] Jesters do oft prove prophets

82] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

83] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

84] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

85] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

86] Expectation is better than realisation

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

88] Every medal has its reverse

89] When bees area old, they yield n honey

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

91] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

92] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

93] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

94] The more you get, the more you want

95] Where there is no might, right loses itself

96] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

97] He knows most who speaks least

98] Hunger is the teacher of many

99] Better beg than steal.

100] Truth may walk through the world unarmed