Famous Proverbs

1] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

2] What costs little is little esteemed

3] Every light has its shadow

4] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

5] Her that is down need fear no fall

6] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

7] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

8] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

9] He that pities another remembers himself

10] You cannot serve God and Mammon

11] Virtue joints man to god

12] Wrong has no warrant

13] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

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

15] Kind hearts are more than coronets

16] Nature hates all sudden changes

17] God made the country ,and man made the town

18] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

19] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

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

21] Like master, like man

22] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

23] They also serve who only stand and wait

24] He knows most who speaks least

25] Love is sweet torment

26] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

27] One barber shaves another gratis

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

29] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

30] All roads lead to Rome

31] A learned man has always riches in himself

32] Like will to like

33] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

34] The owl thinks her own young fairest

35] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

36] A good paymaster never wants workmen

37] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

38] More than enough is too much

39] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

40] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

41] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

42] All are not saints that go to church

43] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

44] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

45] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

46] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

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

48] The more laws, the more offenders

49] Like mother, like daughter

50] Extremes are dangerous

51] Our own opinion is never wrong

52] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

53] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

54] Rats know the ways of rats

55] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

56] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

57] You are never too old to learn

58] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

59] A crust is better than no bread.

60] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

61] Covetousness breaks the sack

62] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

63] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

64] Manners and money make a gentleman

65] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

66] Good hand, good hire

67] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

68] Haste makes waste

69] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

70] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

71] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

72] Great minds think alike

73] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

74] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

75] The best wine comes from an old vessel

76] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

77] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

78] First think, and then speak

79] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

80] No road is long with good company

81] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

82] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

83] If you want peace, prepare for war

84] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

85] Forewarned is forearmed

86] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

87] An open door may tempt a saint

88] First try and then trust

89] Nearest the heart comes out first

90] The company makes the feast

91] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

92] Things are only worth one makes them worth

93] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

94] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

95] A good heart conquers ill fortune

96] A knave and a fool never take thought

97] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

98] A rolling stone gathers no moss

99] There are two sides to every question

100] Variety takes away satiety