Famous Proverbs

1] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

2] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

3] Law makers should not be law breakers

4] There are two sides to every question

5] Love me, love my dog

6] He that cannot ask, cannot live

7] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

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

9] The labourer is worthy of his hire

10] Boys will be boys

11] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

12] Hasty work, double work,

13] God sends cold after Clothes

14] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

15] Good fame is better than a good face

16] Better learn late than never

17] Time flies

18] He that burns most, shines most

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

20] Love sees no fault

21] Manners and money make a gentleman

22] Advise none to marry or to go to war

23] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

24] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

25] He that pities another remembers himself

26] Conscience does make cowards of us all

27] He who wills the end, Wills the means

28] Every dog is valiant at his won door

29] The longest journey starts with a single step

30] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

31] It takes a wise man to be a fool

32] Hunger is the best sauce

33] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

34] He who last, laughs longest.

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

36] No man is born wise or learned

37] The hole calls the thief

38] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

39] One sheep follows another

40] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

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

42] Children and chickens must be always picking

43] The exception proves the rule

44] You cannot make a crab walk straight

45] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

46] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

47] To err is human

48] What will not money do?

49] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

50] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

51] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

52] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

53] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

54] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

55] All that glitters is not gold

56] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

57] Repentance comes too late

58] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

59] Fool’s haste is no speed

60] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

61] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

62] Covetousness breaks the sack

63] The good intention excuses the bad action

64] First try and then trust

65] A rolling stone gathers no moss

66] No road is long with good company

67] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

68] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

69] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

70] Good ware makes quick market

71] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

72] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

73] Great trees keep down the little ones

74] Experience is the best teacher

75] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

76] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

77] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

78] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

79] One swallow does not make a summer

80] Every dog has his day

81] Jesters do oft prove prophets

82] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

83] No man can serve two masters

84] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

85] Speech is silver, silence is golden

86] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

87] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

88] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

89] Better a bare foot than none

90] He who never was sick dies the first fit

91] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

92] Many doctors, death accomplished

93] It is easy to be wise after the event

94] Live and Learn

95] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

96] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

97] Tempt not a desperate man

98] So many men, so many opinions

99] Idleness is the root of all evil

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