Famous Proverbs

1] One sheep follows another

2] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

3] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

4] Truth conquers all things

5] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

6] A word to the wise is enough

7] It is the first step that is troublesome

8] Revenge is sweet

9] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

10] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

11] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

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

13] The labourer is worthy of his hire

14] Virtue carries a lean purse

15] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

16] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

17] A penny saved is a penny gained

18] Empty vessels make the most noise

19] A merchant that gains not, loses

20] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

21] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

22] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

23] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

24] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

25] The more cost, the more honour

26] After the extreme of cold comes spring

27] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

28] The good die young.

29] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

30] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

31] If you want peace, prepare for war

32] The cobbler should stick to his last

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

34] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

35] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

36] He who wills the end, Wills the means

37] Union (or Unity) is strength

38] You are never too old to learn

39] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

40] Despair gives courage to a coward

41] An evil life is a kind of death.

42] Judge not of men and things at first sight

43] They say so’ is half a lie

44] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

45] Idle folks have the least leisure

46] What is worse than ill luck?

47] III luck is good for something

48] One father is more than a hundred school masters

49] Work expands so as to fill the time available

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

51] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

52] Empty vessels make the most noise

53] Seek and you shall find

54] Misfortune does not always come to injure

55] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

56] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

57] Open confession is good for the soul

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

59] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

60] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

61] He that has no money needs no purse

62] Good to begin well, better to end well.

63] His bark is worse than his bite

64] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

65] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

66] Kind hearts are more than coronets

67] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

68] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

69] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

70] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

71] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

72] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

73] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

74] It is too late to look up after you have collided

75] Hard words break no bones

76] Almost’ never killed a fly.

77] Soon gotten, soon spent

78] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

79] An old horse knows the route

80] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

81] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

82] Our own opinion is never wrong

83] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

84] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

85] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

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

87] Where there’s muck, there’s money

88] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

89] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

90] The goat must browse where she is tied

91] We shall lie all alike in our graves

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

93] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

94] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

95] There is many a fair thing full false

96] Marriages are made in heaven

97] Patience surpasses learning

98] Don’t cry before you are hurt

99] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

100] Nothing costs so much as what is given us