Famous Proverbs

1] The best things carried to excess are wrong

2] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

3] The game is not worth the candle

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

5] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

6] Best is cheapest

7] Great barkers are no biters

8] It will be the same a hundred years hence

9] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

10] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

11] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

12] Money is the sinews of war

13] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

14] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

15] Out of sight, out of mind

16] A good Conscience is the best divinity

17] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

18] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

19] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

20] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

21] Praise is always pleasant

22] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

23] One is not smelt where all stink

24] It’s dogged that does it

25] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

26] Even Homer sometimes nods

27] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

28] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

29] He is wise who looks ahead

30] Brevity is the soul of wit

31] You never know your luck

32] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

33] One must howl with the wolves

34] He stands not surely that never slips

35] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

36] One thief will not rob another

37] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

38] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

39] A useful trade is a mine of gold

40] Anger managers everything badly.

41] Ale will make a cat speak

42] As you brew, so shall you drink.

43] Good fame is better than a good face

44] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

45] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

46] Tell a lie and stick to it.

47] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

48] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

49] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

50] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

51] Like mother, like daughter

52] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

53] A little body often harbours a great soul

54] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

55] Where there is no might, right loses itself

56] Don’t play with fire

57] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

58] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

59] All lay loads on a willing horse

60] He that has no money needs no purse

61] Poor folk fare the best

62] Better never begin than never make an end

63] A word before is worth two behind

64] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

65] All meat pleases not all mouths

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

67] He that travels far knows much

68] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

69] All our pomp the earth covers

70] Don’t cry stinking fish

71] By falling we learn to go safely

72] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

73] All glory comes from daring to begin

74] Hear twice before you speak once

75] What is a workman without his tools?

76] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

77] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

78] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

79] It is never too late to mend

80] There is nothing that costs less than civility

81] Life means strife

82] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

83] Worse things happen at sea

84] Make hay while the sun shines

85] Beauty fades like a flower.

86] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

87] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

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

89] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

90] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

91] Love is never without jealousy

92] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

93] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

94] Hasty work, double work,

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

96] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

97] Honest is the best policy

98] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

99] He who considers too much will perform little.

100] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion