Famous Proverbs

1] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

2] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

3] Busiest men find the most time

4] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

5] He who has seen little marvels much

6] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

7] All must be as God will

8] Little by little and bit by bit.

9] Work expands so as to fill the time available

10] Virtue carries a lean purse

11] Great hopes make great men

12] Life begins only in success

13] The highest tree has the greatest fall

14] The eye is bigger than the belly

15] No garden without its weeds.

16] All roads lead to Rome

17] Everything in moderation.

18] Care brings grey hair.

19] Too many cooks spoil the broth

20] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

21] Dumb dogs are dangerous

22] The hand that gives, gathers

23] Pursuits become habits

24] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

25] The cobbler should stick to his last

26] The cowl does not make the monk.

27] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

28] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

29] He who comes first, grinds first.

30] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

31] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

32] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

33] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

34] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

35] Boys will be boys

36] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

37] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

38] Money is power

39] Where there are reeds, there is water

40] The borrower is servant to the lender

41] Lucky men need no counsel

42] Laugh and grow fat

43] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

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

45] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

46] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

47] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

48] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

49] Money makes the man

50] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

51] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

52] Better an apple given than eaten

53] One fool praises another

54] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

55] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

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

57] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

58] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

59] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

60] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

61] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

62] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

63] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

64] Praises fill not the belly

65] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

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

67] Frugality is the mother of virtue

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

69] There is nothing like being on the safe side

70] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

71] The end makes all equal

72] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

73] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

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

75] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

76] A man can do no more than he can

77] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

78] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

79] Circumstances alter cases

80] Wine unveils the words of the heart

81] Penny and penny laid up will be many

82] Failure teaches success

83] Years know more than books

84] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

85] Virtue has all things in itself

86] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

87] The longest day must have an end

88] The best fish swim near the bottom

89] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

90] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

91] Wise men are caught in wiles

92] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

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

94] A fault confessed is half redressed

95] He that cannot ask, cannot live

96] A man’s mother is his other God

97] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

98] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

99] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

100] Too much cunning undoes