Famous Proverbs

1] Pleasant hours fly past

2] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

3] It never rains it pours

4] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

5] Love knows hidden paths

6] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

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

8] Take away fuel, take away flame

9] The absent party is always to blame.

10] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

11] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

12] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

13] Every medal has two sides

14] Live and let live

15] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

16] Words fly, writings remain

17] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

18] What everybody says must be true

19] He that has good money, gives few alms

20] He who serves is not free

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

22] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

23] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

24] It is misery enough to have once been happy

25] The owl thinks her own young fairest

26] The lion had need of the mouse

27] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

28] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

29] One cannot love and be wise

30] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

31] What is a workman without his tools?

32] From word to deed is a great space

33] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

34] An Englishman’s home is his castle

35] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

36] The road to hell is paved with good action

37] Be just before you are generous

38] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

39] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

40] Cowards die many times before their deaths

41] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

42] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

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

44] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

45] The word is far him who has patience

46] A good face is a letter of recommendation

47] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

48] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

49] Walls have ears

50] What must be must be

51] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

52] First come, first served

53] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

54] Soon gotten, soon spent

55] Travel broadens the mind

56] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

57] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

58] Better the last smile than the first laugh

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

60] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

61] Like question, like answer.

62] Better no doctor at all than three.

63] Judge not the tree by its bark

64] Every man has his faults

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

66] He that obey cannot command

67] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

68] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

69] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

70] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

71] Look before you leap

72] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

73] Bad excuses are worse than none.

74] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

75] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

76] Spend and be free, but make no waste

77] Riches along make no men happy

78] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

79] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

80] For a web begun, God sends the thread

81] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

82] All roads lead to Rome

83] Bad luck often brings good luck

84] The rich knows not who is his friend

85] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

86] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

87] Even a worm will turn

88] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

89] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

90] Needs must when the evil drives

91] New things are fair

92] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

93] Don’t ride the high horse

94] Christmas comes but once a year

95] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

96] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

97] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

98] Good luck beats early rising

99] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

100] One of these days is none of these days