Famous Proverbs

1] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

2] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

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

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

5] From small beginnings come great things

6] Empty vessels make the most sound

7] The devil knows many things because he is old

8] Too long burden makes weary bones

9] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

10] Ill luck is good for something

11] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

12] Share and share alike

13] The best things come in small packages

14] There’s always room at the top

15] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

16] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

17] Forecast is better than work-hard

18] Good words are worth much and cost little

19] Slow help is no help

20] Love delights in praise

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

22] Creditors have better memories than debtors

23] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

24] All is vanity.

25] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

26] Wrong never comes right

27] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

28] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

29] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

30] Experience is good if not bought too dear

31] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

32] Slow but sure wins the race

33] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

34] Might is right

35] A good wife makes a good husband

36] Hitch your wagon to a star

37] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

38] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

39] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

40] Will is the cause of woe

41] Better are small fish than an empty dish

42] Respect is greater from a distance

43] Dead men tell no tales

44] Bear with evil and expect good

45] Coming events cast their shadows before

46] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

47] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

48] Nothing crave, nothing have

49] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

50] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

51] Love sees no fault

52] Lend your money and lose a friend

53] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

54] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

55] Never grieve for what you cannot help

56] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

57] Names are debts

58] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

59] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

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

61] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

62] All men are mortal

63] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

64] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

65] Waste not, want not

66] What cannot gold do?

67] Words bind men

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

69] Don’t cry stinking fish

70] First things first

71] Of evil manners, spring good laws

72] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

73] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

74] Know thyself

75] What’s done cannot be undone

76] Ambition makes people diligent

77] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

78] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

79] Look on the bright side

80] Nothing comes from nothing

81] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

82] Even Homer sometimes nods

83] Master easy, servant slack

84] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

85] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

86] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

87] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

88] Rip not up old sores

89] White there’s life there’s hope

90] Share and share alike

91] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

92] Vice makes virtue shine

93] A man’s studies pass in to his character

94] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

95] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

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

97] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

98] A traveller may lie with authority

99] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

100] Step by step the ladder is ascended