Famous Proverbs

1] Black will take no other hue

2] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

3] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

4] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

5] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

6] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

7] Kindness lies in one side of the house

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

9] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

10] Paddle your own canoe

11] A rich man can do nothing wrong

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

13] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

14] Better to ask the way than go astray.

15] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

16] Think on the end before you begin

17] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

18] Learn not and know not

19] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

20] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

21] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

22] What will not money do?

23] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

24] Wise men propose, and fools determine

25] Patient waiters are no losers

26] The highest tree has the greatest fall

27] Mirth without measure is madness

28] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

29] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

30] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

31] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

32] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

33] Give credit where credit is due

34] Liars should have good memories

35] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

36] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

37] Home is where the heart is

38] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

39] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

40] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

41] He would command must serve

42] An obedient wife commands her husband

43] Confess and be hanged

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

45] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

46] Not even Hercules could contend against two

47] There is no place like home

48] You are never too old to learn

49] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

50] Money refused loses its brightness

51] The mob tramples on the coward

52] In doing we learn.

53] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

54] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

55] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

56] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

57] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

58] He who hesitates is lost

59] What cannot gold do?

60] Clothes do not make the man

61] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

62] Think on the end before you begin

63] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

64] Waste makes wants

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

66] They are rich who have true friends

67] Let the buyer beware

68] The devil knows many things because he is old

69] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

70] It is not every question that deserves an answer

71] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

72] Many eyes upon the king

73] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

74] Who greases his way travels easily

75] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

76] A good conscience is a constant feast

77] Years know more than books

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

79] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

80] After the extreme of cold comes spring

81] Lovers are madmen

82] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

83] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

84] The word is far him who has patience

85] There is no accounting for tastes

86] Every beginning is hard

87] No man fears what he has seen grow

88] For a web begun, God sends the thread

89] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

90] Experience is good if not bought too dear

91] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

92] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

93] Out of sight, out of mind

94] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

95] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

96] Where there’s muck, there’s money

97] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

98] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

99] White there’s life there’s hope

100] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand