Famous Proverbs

1] Respect is greater from a distance

2] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

3] The greatest step is that out of doors

4] He that has plenty of goods will have more

5] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

6] The good is often the enemy of the best

7] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

8] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

9] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

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

11] Patient waiters are no losers

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

13] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

14] What is the mother of industry

15] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

16] Master easy, servant slack

17] A black hen lays a white egg

18] He who does no good, does evil enough

19] Danger makes men devout

20] East or west, home is best

21] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

22] He that brings good news, knocks hard

23] He knows the water best who has waded through it

24] There is no tree but bears some fruit

25] Quickly come, quickly go

26] One is not smelt where all stink

27] Honesty is ill to thrive by

28] Money makes the man

29] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

30] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

31] He knows most who speaks least

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

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

34] A little is better than none

35] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

36] Don’t put the cart before the horse

37] Hear twice before you speak once

38] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

39] Better late than never, but better never late

40] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

41] Youth and age will never agree

42] Small is beautiful

43] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

44] Coming events cast their shadows before

45] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

46] Coming events cast their shadows before

47] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

48] Anything will fit a naked man.

49] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

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

51] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

52] Better are small fish than an empty dish

53] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

54] Where there is peace, God is

55] A man of courage never wants weapons

56] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

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

58] Two wrongs do not make a right

59] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

60] Tomorrow is another day

61] He that travels far knows much

62] It is easier to pull down than to build

63] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

64] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

65] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

66] Good words are worth much and cost little

67] For a web begun, God sends the thread

68] A man may bear till his back breaks

69] A fault confessed is half redressed

70] Look at the bright side

71] Wisdom is better than strength

72] Lavishness is not generosity

73] No man so good but another may be as good as he

74] Extremes meet

75] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

76] Far from eye, far from heart

77] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

78] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

79] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

80] A piece of churchyard fits every body

81] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

82] A good wife is a good prize

83] Much meat, much malady

84] Kill two birds with one stone

85] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

86] Brevity is the soul of wit

87] It is easy to be wise after the event

88] A good beginning makes a good ending.

89] Ill comes often on the back worse

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

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

92] The more you have the more you want

93] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

94] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

95] One kindness is the price of another

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

97] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

98] No remedy but patience

99] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

100] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have