Famous Proverbs

1] Change brings life

2] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

3] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

4] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

5] The mean is the best

6] Delays are not denials

7] A little is better than none

8] The tailor makes the man

9] Nothing is given so freely as advice

10] A friend is easier lost than found

11] Distance lends enchantment to the view

12] Everything must have a beginning

13] Beauty is but skin-deep

14] To teach is to learn twice over

15] The tongue talks at the heads cost

16] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

17] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

18] Shrouds have no pockets

19] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

20] It is the first step that is troublesome

21] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

22] Blue are the far away hills

23] Too long burden makes weary bones

24] Never too late to repent

25] Every man to his trade.

26] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

27] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

28] First impressions are most lasting

29] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

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

31] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

32] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

33] Better never begin than never make an end

34] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

35] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

36] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

37] It is misery enough to have once been happy

38] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

39] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

40] The leopard cannot change its spots

41] The borrower is servant to the lender

42] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

43] Intimacy lessens fame

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

45] Slow and steady wins the race

46] A man’s mother is his other God

47] Enough is enough

48] A useful trade is a mine of gold

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

50] Speech is silver, silence is golden

51] Don’t tell tales out of school

52] Beware of a silent man and still water

53] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

54] Facts are stubborn things

55] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

56] Morning dreams come true

57] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

58] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

59] He that blows best, bears away the horn

60] Now is now, and then was then

61] Covetousness is the root of all evil

62] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

63] He stands not surely that never slips

64] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

65] Love knows no limit

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

67] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

68] Adam’s ale is the best brew

69] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

70] Every why has a wherefore

71] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

72] A living dog is better than a dead lion

73] Dead dogs bark not

74] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

75] Danger makes men devout

76] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

77] He has not lost all who has one cast left

78] The devil dances in an empty pocket

79] Who greases his way travels easily

80] Threatened folk live long

81] Debt is an evil conscience

82] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

83] He that ventures not fails not.

84] Don’t kick against the pricks

85] Where there are reeds, there is water

86] Virtue has all things in itself

87] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

88] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

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

90] Hope keeps man alive

91] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

92] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

93] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

94] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

95] The money you refuse will never do you good

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

97] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

98] Don’t try to run before you walk

99] We live laws, not by examples

100] A good Jack makes a good Jill.