Famous Proverbs

1] He gives twice who gives quickly

2] Open a book and you profit by what you read

3] A good conscience is a sure card

4] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

5] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

6] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

7] Riches along make no men happy

8] Divide and rule

9] Self do, self have

10] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

11] God’s help is better than the early rising

12] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

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

14] The more wicked, the more lucky

15] Everything is good in its season

16] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

17] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

18] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

19] Little by little and bit by bit.

20] Valour delights in the test

21] Manners and money make a gentleman

22] Beware of him who makes thee presents

23] Poor men’s words have little weight

24] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

25] The resolved mind has no cares

26] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

27] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

28] Many hands make light work

29] Let us do evil that good may come

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

31] Discontent is the first step in progress

32] What has been, may be

33] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

34] Idle folks have the least leisure

35] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

36] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

37] The best of friends must part

38] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

39] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

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

41] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

42] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

43] Beauty fades like a flower.

44] Walls have ears

45] He is an ill husband who is not missed

46] Poor men’s words have little weight

47] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

48] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

49] What can’t be cured must be endured

50] Men are known by the company they keep.

51] Two wrongs do not make a right

52] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

53] Patient men with the day.

54] Crust is better than no bread

55] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

56] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

57] When in doubt, do nothing

58] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

59] Be just before you are generous

60] Better unborn than untaught

61] He who envies admits his inferiority

62] He that is down need fear no fall

63] Cleanliness is next to godliness

64] Where there is peace, there is blessing

65] Old habits die hard

66] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

67] He that eats least eats most

68] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

69] Union (or Unity) is strength

70] Quickly come, quickly go

71] Far from eye, far from heart

72] Familiarity breeds contempt

73] Six feet of earth make all men equal

74] Possibilities are infinite

75] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

76] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

77] Prospect is often better than possession

78] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

79] Every dog has his day

80] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

81] Fair exchange is no robbery

82] Gold will not buy everything

83] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

84] Threatened folk live long

85] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

86] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

87] Many a true word is spoken in jest

88] A good dog deserves a good bone

89] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

90] Every dog has his day

91] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

92] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

93] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

94] All lay loads on a willing horse

95] Work expands so as to fill the time available

96] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

97] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

98] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

99] Better to be safe than sorry.

100] In haste is error