Famous Proverbs

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

2] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

3] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

4] Rats know the ways of rats

5] Make hay while the sun shines

6] A little too late, is much too late

7] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

8] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

9] Hunger is the best sauce

10] The tongue stings

11] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

12] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

13] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

14] It is misery enough to have once been happy

15] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

16] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

17] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

18] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

19] Love sees no fault

20] Experience is the best teacher

21] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

22] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

23] A watched pot never boils

24] Wrong has no warrant

25] Wash your dirty linen at home

26] You cannot make bricks without straw

27] A bribe will enter without knocking

28] Better never begin than never make an end

29] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

30] A short cut is often a wrong cut

31] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

32] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

33] Nothing is so certain as death

34] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

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

36] Dog does not eat dog

37] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

38] Poor folk fare the best

39] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

40] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

41] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

42] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

43] It takes all sorts to make a world

44] Love delights in praise

45] Fortune is blind

46] Waste makes wants

47] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

48] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

49] He that cannot ask, cannot live

50] Learn not and know not

51] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

52] Waste not, want not

53] A penny saved is a penny gained

54] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

55] The last drop makes the cup run over

56] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

57] If anything can go wrong, it will

58] Weeds need no sowing

59] Every flow must have its ebb

60] Give and spend, and God will send

61] Cast not the first stone.

62] All glory comes from daring to begin

63] Every man to his trade.

64] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

65] Where there’s a will there’s a way

66] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

67] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

68] A rolling stone gathers no moss

69] Every advantage has its disadvantage

70] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

71] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

72] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

73] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

74] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

75] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

76] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

77] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

78] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

79] It is not every question that deserves an answer

80] Double charge will rive a cannon

81] They brag most who can do least

82] A good servant must have good wages

83] East or west, home is best

84] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

85] None can guess the jewel by the casket

86] A good heart conquers ill fortune

87] A single rose does not mean spring

88] He that eats least eats most

89] Poor folk fare the best

90] Money can influence even the spirits

91] A crust is better than no bread.

92] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

93] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

94] What will not money do?

95] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

96] Crime does not pay

97] Variety takes away satiety

98] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

99] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

100] A hungry man smells meat afar off