Famous Proverbs

1] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

2] The early man ever borrows from the late man

3] He thinks not well that thinks not again

4] A word before is worth two behind

5] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

6] Youth will have its course.

7] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

8] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

9] Make the best of a bad job

10] Great oaks from little acorns grow

11] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

12] Between two stools you fall to the ground

13] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

14] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

15] There is no redemption from hell

16] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

17] Old vessels must leak

18] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

19] One of these days is none of these days

20] Dreams are lies

21] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

22] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

23] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

24] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

25] He that has plenty of goods will have more

26] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

27] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

28] Past cure, past care

29] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

30] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

31] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

32] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

33] You cannot have your cake and eat it

34] A rich man’s joke is always funny

35] They are rich who have true friends

36] Far fowls have fair feather

37] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

38] He that has good money, gives few alms

39] A knave and a fool never take thought

40] Silence is golden

41] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

42] Every cloud has a silver lining

43] A hungry man is angry man

44] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

45] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

46] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

47] Patient men with the day.

48] Give a loan and buy quarrel

49] Money refused loses its brightness

50] You never know what you can do till you try

51] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

52] He that has no money needs no purse

53] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

54] The good intention excuses the bad action

55] To err is human

56] We have all been once in our life

57] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

58] Never do things by halves

59] Prove your friend ere you have need

60] Take things as you find them

61] What cannot gold do?

62] Clothes do not make the man

63] The value of money is having it.

64] Think of ease, but work on.

65] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

66] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

67] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

68] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

69] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

70] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

71] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

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

73] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

74] The best is often the enemy of the good

75] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

76] Will is the cause of woe

77] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

78] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

79] For a web begun, God sends the thread

80] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

81] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

82] Every man has his price

83] The game is not worth the candle

84] Where there’s a will there’s a way

85] From word to deed is a great space

86] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

87] Where there is no trust there is no love

88] He who leaps high must take a long run

89] Gossiping and lying go together

90] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

91] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

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

93] Health is better than wealth

94] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

95] He who demands does not command

96] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

97] Never too late to learn

98] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

99] If you would be well served, serve yourself

100] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner