Famous Proverbs

1] Every dog has his day

2] Be just before you are generous

3] Bear and forbear

4] The sun shines upon all alike.

5] Virtue is the only true nobility

6] Delay is the antidote of anger

7] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

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

9] All covet all lose.

10] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

11] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

12] He who leaps high must take a long run

13] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

14] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

15] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

16] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

17] Good words are worth much and cost little

18] A heavy purse makes a light heart

19] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

20] Of evil manners, spring good laws

21] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

22] Gold is tried in the fire

23] Never say die

24] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

25] Whatever man has done, man can do

26] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

27] Revenge never repairs an injury

28] A bad workman always blames his tools

29] The wisest of the wise may err.

30] Health is great riches

31] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

32] Example is the greatest of all seducers

33] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

34] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

35] Words are but wind

36] Laws were made to be broke

37] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

38] A good friend is my nearest relation

39] Do not kick against the pricks

40] God is always on the side of the big battalions

41] Business is business

42] Time flies

43] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

44] Give and spend, and God will send

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

46] Better an apple given than eaten

47] Law makers should not be law breakers

48] Silence and thinking can no man offend

49] Company in misery makes it light

50] The borrower is servant to the lender

51] Well begun is half done.

52] You must grin and bear it

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

54] How forceful are right words

55] The sign brings customers

56] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

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

58] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

59] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

60] Great trees keep down the little ones

61] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

62] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

63] Wise men do not argue with idiots

64] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

65] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

66] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

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

68] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

69] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

70] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

71] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

72] Too much curiosity lost paradise

73] Hard words break no bones

74] Don’t meet trouble half-way

75] Kingdoms divided soon fall

76] Friends are thieves of time

77] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

78] It is misery enough to have once been happy

79] A hungry man is angry man

80] One fool praises another

81] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

82] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

83] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

84] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

85] The great would have none great, and the little all little

86] The lion had need of the mouse

87] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

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

89] It’s a long lane that has no turning

90] Change brings life

91] One sheep follows another

92] Trusting often makes fidelity

93] Union is strength.

94] Light grows the burden which is well borne

95] An old man is a bed full of bones

96] A light purse makes a heavy heart

97] Many a true word is spoken in jest

98] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

99] Every oak has been an acorn

100] Many doctors, death accomplished