Famous Proverbs

1] Art improves Nature

2] That which proves too much proves nothing

3] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

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

5] The game is not worth the candle

6] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

7] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

8] Better are small fish than an empty dish

9] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

10] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

11] Might knows no right

12] Coming events cast their shadows before

13] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

14] He thinks not well that thinks not again

15] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

16] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

17] He that has no shame has no conscience

18] Out of debt, out of danger

19] No flying without wings.

20] No man is a hero to his valet

21] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

22] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

23] Safety lies in the middle course

24] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

25] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

26] Children should be seen and not heard

27] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

28] Success has many friends

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

30] Live and let live

31] An old ox makes a straight furrow

32] One may change the place but not the mind.

33] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

34] Judge not, that ye be not judged

35] He conquers who endures

36] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

37] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

38] The cowl does not make the monk.

39] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

40] Train the child in the way he should go.

41] If you play with fire you get burnt

42] What is worth doing is worth doing well

43] Diligence is the mother of good luck

44] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

45] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

46] Pursuits become habits

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

48] In peace, prepare for war

49] There is safety in numbers

50] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

51] Once a use and ever a custom

52] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

53] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

54] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

55] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

56] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

57] Discretion is the better part of valour

58] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

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

60] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

61] Words are but wind

62] Gifts blind the eyes.

63] Every man is his own worst enemy

64] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

65] Take away fuel, take away flame

66] No man is his craft’s master the first day

67] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

68] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

69] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

70] A good heart cannot lie.

71] It is too late to husband when all is spent

72] He who has seen little marvels much

73] Pride goes before a fall

74] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

75] A man in debt is caught in a net

76] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

77] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

78] The axe falls on a straight tree first

79] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

80] Nature is conquered by obeying her

81] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

82] Wake not a sleeping lion

83] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

84] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

85] No one ought to judge in his own cause

86] Dead dogs bark not

87] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

88] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

89] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

90] God’s lambs will play.

91] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

92] Don’t cry for the moon

93] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

94] Erring is not heating

95] Dreams are lies

96] Danger makes men devout

97] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

98] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

99] Hope often deludes the foolish man

100] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness