Famous Proverbs

1] There’s always room at the top

2] Jack is as good as his master

3] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

4] Ill news comes unsent for.

5] All things require skills but an appetite

6] A little impatience will spoil great plans

7] Best is cheapest

8] He who touches pitch will be defiled

9] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

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

11] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

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

13] Men make houses, women make homes

14] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

15] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

16] Acorns were good till bread was found

17] He that is absent is soon forgotten

18] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

19] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

20] There is a black sheep in every flock

21] The devil lurks behind the cross

22] He who begins many things, finishes but few

23] The mean is the best

24] The darkest place is under the candlestick

25] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

26] Life is short and time is swift

27] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

28] Desires are nourished by delays

29] There is truth in wine

30] Business is business

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

32] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

33] Every path has a puddle

34] Covetousness brings nothing home

35] He is an ill husband who is not missed

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

37] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

38] More haste, less speed

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

40] He gives twice who gives quickly

41] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

42] Two heads are better than one

43] Sooner begun, sooner done

44] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

45] He that repairs not a part, builds all

46] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

47] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

48] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

49] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

50] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

51] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

52] A good conscience is a constant feast

53] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

54] A wicked man is his own hell

55] Tigers and deer do not over.

56] It is easier to pull down than to build

57] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

58] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

59] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

60] A good marksman may miss

61] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

62] Speech is silver, silence is golden

63] The child is father of the man

64] Erring is not heating

65] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

66] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

67] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

68] Long life has long misery

69] The righteous man sins before an open chest

70] Beware of no man more than himself

71] A strong town is not won in an hour

72] Youth and age will never agree

73] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

74] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

75] He that has no money needs no purse

76] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

77] Parents are patterns

78] The race is got by running

79] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

80] First thrive then wive

81] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

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

83] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

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

85] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

86] There is death in the pot.

87] He that burns most, shines most

88] Don’t meet trouble half-way

89] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

90] They say so’ is half a lie

91] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

92] A rich man’s joke is always funny

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

94] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

95] No misfortune will go on forever

96] One man sows and another reaps

97] A learned man has always riches in himself

98] The last drop makes the cup run over

99] By his deeds we know a man

100] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea