Famous Proverbs

1] Bear with evil and expect good

2] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

3] Friends agree best at a distance

4] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

5] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

6] Necessity is the mother of invention

7] Beware of no man more than himself

8] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

9] Accidents will happen

10] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

11] One sword keeps another in the sheath

12] Human blood is all of a colour

13] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

14] Tell the truth and shame the devil

15] Necessity breaks iron

16] An evil life is a kind of death.

17] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

18] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

19] Trust is the mother of deceit

20] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

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

22] It is good to follow the old fox

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

24] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

25] The best is often the enemy of the good

26] Repentance is a bitter physic

27] Practice what you preach

28] Stolen goods never thrive

29] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

30] Revenge never repairs an injury

31] Death is the grand leveler

32] A man can die but once

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

34] Ill gotten, ill spent

35] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

36] There is safety in numbers

37] Failure teaches success

38] Worse things happen at sea

39] Patience surpasses learning

40] Make haste slowly

41] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

42] Many a little makes a mickle

43] A good paymaster never wants workmen

44] Weapons breed peace

45] An empty sack cannot stand upright

46] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

47] Marriage makes or mars a man

48] What the king wills, that the law wills

49] First try and then trust

50] Little things are pretty

51] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

52] Laughter makes good blood

53] A house divided against itself cannot stand

54] A little learning is dangerous thing

55] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

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

57] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

58] Honesty is ill to thrive by

59] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

60] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

61] First things first

62] Money refused loses its brightness

63] Don’t cry for the moon

64] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

65] Like breeds like

66] Love can find a way

67] Keep some till further more come

68] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

69] Wiles help weak folk

70] A miss is as good as a mile

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

72] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

73] Fair exchange is no robbery

74] Crust is better than no bread

75] Silence gives (or means) consent

76] Shrouds have no pockets

77] Distance lends enchantment to the view

78] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

79] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

80] Like master, like man

81] Misfortune does not always come to injure

82] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

83] Never hit a man when he’s down

84] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

85] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

86] Hope is the poor man’s bread

87] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

88] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

89] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

90] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

91] Dead men don’t bite

92] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

93] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

94] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

95] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

96] The ant had wings to her hurt

97] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

98] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

99] All is fair in love and war

100] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth