Famous Proverbs

1] Fool’s haste is no speed

2] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

3] Evil to him who evil thinks.

4] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

5] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

6] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

7] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

8] Better learn late than never

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

10] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

11] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

12] Either mend or end

13] All that glitters is not gold

14] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

15] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

16] An ill tongue may do much

17] Pleasing ware is half sold

18] You cannot have your cake and eat it

19] New lords, new laws

20] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

21] Grief pent up will break the heart

22] The thread breaks where it is weakest

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

24] Who greases his way travels easily

25] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

26] A little impatience will spoil great plans

27] First impressions are the most lasting

28] He who pays the piper calls the tune

29] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

30] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

31] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

32] For a web begun, God sends the thread

33] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

34] The greatest talkers are the least doers

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

36] An evil life is a kind of death.

37] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

38] Let us do evil that good may come

39] The dog that fetches, will carry.

40] All doors open to courtesy

41] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

42] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

43] Pitchers have ears

44] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

45] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

46] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

47] Whatever man has done, man can do

48] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

49] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

50] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

51] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

52] Half a word is enough for a wise man

53] The absent saint gets no candle

54] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

55] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

56] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

57] New lords, new laws

58] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

59] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

60] Familiarity breeds contempt

61] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

62] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

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

64] Patience is a virtue

65] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

66] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

67] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

68] Man cannot live by bread alone

69] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

70] Experience must be bought

71] The best is often the enemy of the good

72] Wiles help weak folk

73] Sickness soaks the purse

74] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

75] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

76] At open doors, dogs come in

77] A bully never grows up.

78] Dirty linen should be washed at home

79] No man limps because another is hurt

80] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

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

82] Time and tide wait for no man

83] Bare walls make giddy housewives

84] All cats are grey in the dark

85] He thinks not well that thinks not again

86] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

87] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

88] The cobbler should stick to his last

89] We don’t get something for nothing

90] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

91] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

92] Don’t take your harp to the party

93] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

94] Better be born lucky than wise.

95] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

96] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

97] Familiarity breeds contempt

98] Don’t cry stinking fish

99] A good friend is my nearest relation

100] Love and business teach eloquence