Famous Proverbs

1] Once a knave, always a knave

2] Art improves Nature

3] No honest man ever repented his honesty

4] Man proposes, God disposes

5] Nothing comes from nothing

6] Home is where the heart is

7] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

8] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

9] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

10] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

11] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

12] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

13] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

14] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

15] The good is often the enemy of the best

16] There is nothing that costs less than civility

17] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

18] We are all Adam’s children

19] III counsel mars all

20] No man fears what he has seen grow

21] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

22] He is rich that has few wants

23] Mirth without measure is madness

24] A jack of all traders is master of none

25] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

26] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

27] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

28] What cannot gold do?

29] Dirty water does not wash clean.

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

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

32] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

33] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

34] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

35] Wedlock is padlock

36] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

37] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

38] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

39] Light grows the burden which is well borne

40] As soon as there is life there is danger

41] We live by laws, not by examples

42] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

43] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

44] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

45] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

46] Patience is a virtue

47] Fair play’s a jewel

48] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

49] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

50] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

51] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

52] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

53] New meat begets a new appetite

54] Some are wise and some are otherwise

55] There is no accounting for tastes

56] All heiresses are beautiful.

57] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

58] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

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

60] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

61] Love is never without jealousy

62] Much learning makes men mad

63] In fair weather prepare for foul

64] Learn to walk before you run

65] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

66] Comparisons are odious

67] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

68] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

69] Let the buyer beware

70] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

71] In the land of hope there is never any winter

72] Kind hearts are more than coronets

73] The fairest flowers soonest fade

74] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

75] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

76] Never judge from appearances

77] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

78] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

79] A knave and a fool never take thought

80] Soon gotten, soon spent

81] The dog that fetches, will carry.

82] Friendship should not be all on one side

83] One of these days is none of these days

84] Dead men don’t bite

85] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

86] The wisest of the wise may err.

87] Wise men propose, and fools determine

88] The young will sow their wild oats

89] A good beginning is half the battle.

90] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

91] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

92] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

93] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

94] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

95] The end makes all equal

96] Muck and money go together

97] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

98] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

99] Even silence may be eloquent

100] Better beg than steal.