Famous Proverbs

1] He that sows virtue reaps fame

2] Love is sweet torment

3] What’s done is done

4] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

5] Great gain makes easy work

6] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

7] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

8] Barking dogs seldom bite

9] Be careful to whom you give

10] Innocence is no protection

11] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

12] A straight stick is crooked in water

13] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

14] Every beginning is hard

15] Dogs bark as they are bred.

16] Strike while the iron is hot

17] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

18] Names and natures do often agree

19] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

20] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

21] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

22] A good example is the best sermon

23] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

24] Wrong has no warrant

25] Tigers and deer do not over.

26] Life begins only in success

27] Art improves Nature

28] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

29] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

30] The goat must browse where she is tied

31] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

32] Do right and fear no man

33] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

34] Fool’s haste is no speed

35] Worse things happen at sea

36] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

37] Look on the bright side

38] If one will not, another will

39] What must be must be

40] Covetousness is the root of all evil

41] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

42] The best of friends must part

43] The race is got by running

44] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

45] We have all been once in our life

46] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

47] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

48] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

49] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

50] Hope is the poor man’s bread

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

52] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

53] Handsome is as handsome does

54] Beware of him who makes thee presents

55] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

56] The worse luck now, the better another time

57] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

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

59] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

60] Nature does nothing in vain

61] Long absent, soon forgotten

62] Rust wastes more than use

63] Better never begin than never make an end

64] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

65] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

66] The golden age was never the present age

67] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

68] Will is the cause of woe

69] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

70] A prophet is without honour in his own country

71] Covetousness breaks the sack

72] See which way the cat jumps

73] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

74] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

75] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

76] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

77] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

78] The labour we delight in physics pain

79] Better late than never

80] What is new cannot be true

81] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

82] You can’t win them all

83] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

84] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

85] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

86] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

87] A merchant that gains not, loses

88] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

89] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

90] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

91] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

92] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

93] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

94] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

95] Threatened folk live long

96] That which Nature paints never fades

97] Patient waiters are no losers

98] That which is easily done is soon believed

99] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

100] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you