Famous Proverbs

1] Little and often fills the purse

2] Rust wastes more than use

3] Long absent, soon forgotten

4] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

5] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

6] Precept begins, examples accomplish

7] Lend never that thing you needed most

8] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

9] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

10] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

11] That which Nature paints never fades

12] Misery loves company.

13] Work won’t kill but worry will.

14] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

15] Pleasing ware is half sold

16] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

17] Where there’s muck, there’s money

18] Take heed is a fair thing

19] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

20] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

21] One sheep follows another

22] Virtue is its own reward

23] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

24] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

25] It never rains it pours

26] When the word is out it belongs to another

27] Success has many friends

28] A miss is as good as a mile

29] A good heart conquers ill fortune

30] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

31] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

32] Prevention is better than cure

33] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

34] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

35] An old dog barks not in vain

36] Wash your dirty linen at home

37] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

38] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

39] Master easy, servant slack

40] The bull must be taken by the horns

41] The weeds overgrow the corn.

42] No honest man ever repented his honesty

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

44] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

45] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

46] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

47] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

48] All heiresses are beautiful.

49] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

50] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

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

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

53] A knave and a fool never take thought

54] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

55] Rip not up old sores

56] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

57] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

58] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

59] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

60] First creep, then walk

61] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

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

63] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

64] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

65] Desert and reward seldom keep company

66] Grin and bear it

67] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

68] Kind hearts are more than coronets

69] A useful trade is a mine of gold

70] Every medal has two sides

71] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

72] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

73] Intimacy lessens fame

74] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

75] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

76] Man does what he can, and God what he will

77] Cheats never prosper

78] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

79] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

80] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

81] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

82] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

83] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

84] The cowl does not make the monk.

85] No man is content with his lot

86] Take away fuel, take away flame

87] Bind the sack before it be full

88] First impressions are most lasting

89] Once bitten, twice shy.

90] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

91] A good drink makes the old young

92] Where there is no might, right loses itself

93] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

94] What will not money do?

95] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

96] For a web begun, God sends the thread

97] A hedge between keeps friendship green

98] Every bean has its black

99] There is no smoke without fire

100] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.