Famous Proverbs

1] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

2] Erring is not heating

3] He that lends, gives

4] Do right and fear no man

5] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

6] Hard cases make bad law

7] Wine unveils the words of the heart

8] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

9] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

10] The greatest talkers are the least doers

11] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

12] Poverty parts friendship

13] When wine sinks, words swim

14] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

15] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

16] Either mend or end

17] Patience is the remedy of the world

18] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

19] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

20] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

21] All is fair in love and war

22] Grin and bear it

23] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

24] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

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

26] One man’s loss is another’s gain

27] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

28] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

29] What is the mother of industry

30] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

31] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

32] Content is more than a kingdom

33] Everything comes to him who waits

34] Crime does not pay

35] Youth and age will never agree

36] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

37] God made the country ,and man made the town

38] One lie makes many

39] Fools rejoice at promises

40] The first blow is half the battle

41] A true man and a thief think not the same

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

43] Suffering does not manifest itself

44] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

45] A good wife makes a good husband

46] He that has good money, gives few alms

47] Dying is as natural as living

48] Sorrow will pay no debt

49] The mob tramples on the coward

50] Beauty is only skin deep

51] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

52] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

53] One cannot put back the clock

54] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

55] A prophet is without honour in his own country

56] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

57] Asking costs little

58] Fortune is blind

59] What the king wills, that the law wills

60] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

61] Rust wastes more than use

62] The more wicked, the more lucky

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

64] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

65] There is many a fair thing full false

66] One may change the place but not the mind.

67] Out of sight, out of mind

68] God arms the harmless

69] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

70] A great city, a great solitude

71] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

72] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

73] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

74] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

75] What will not money do?

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

77] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

78] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

79] No garden without its weeds.

80] Great oaks from little acorns grow

81] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

82] Love is sweet torment

83] A good conscience is a sure card

84] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

85] Friends agree best at a distance

86] Tomorrow never comes

87] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

88] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

89] Fair without, false within

90] New brooms sweep clean

91] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

92] If you have known one, you have known them all

93] Give and spend, and God will send

94] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

95] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

96] Bind the sack before it be full

97] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

98] A hedge between keeps friendship green

99] There is nothing like being on the safe side

100] Many irons in the fire, some must cool