Famous Proverbs

1] Everything is good in its season

2] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

3] Facts are stubborn things

4] No man fears what he has seen grow

5] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

6] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

7] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

8] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

9] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

10] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

11] Never hit a man when he’s down

12] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

13] It is more blessed to give than to receive

14] While there is life, there is hope

15] Give credit where credit is due

16] More haste, less speed

17] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

18] What is word but wind?

19] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

20] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

21] A closed mouth catches no files

22] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

23] What must be must be

24] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

25] Virtue carries a lean purse

26] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

27] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

28] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

29] Nearest the heart comes out first

30] Don’t meet trouble half-way

31] Too long burden makes weary bones

32] No remedy but patience

33] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

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

35] A bad padlock invites a picklock

36] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

37] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

38] Hitch your wagon to a star

39] Muck and money go together

40] We live laws, not by examples

41] First creep, then walk

42] Life is short and time is swift

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

44] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

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

46] Fine feathers make fine birds.

47] The devil is not as black as he is painted

48] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

49] Lookers-on see most of the game

50] Every man has his faults

51] There is none misfortune cannot reach

52] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

53] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

54] Manners make the man

55] A bad workman always blames his tools

56] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

57] Content is more than a kingdom

58] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

59] Brevity is the soul of wit

60] He that eats well should do his duty well

61] An angry man is not fit to pray

62] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

63] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

64] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

65] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

66] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

67] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

68] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

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

70] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

71] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

72] The best things carried to excess are wrong

73] Every man to his trade.

74] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

75] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

76] Open a book and you profit by what you read

77] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

78] Fear of death is worse than death itself

79] Do as you would be done by

80] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

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

82] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

83] Love is sweet torment

84] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

85] Much science, much sorrow

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

87] A man in debt is caught in a net

88] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

89] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

90] Every man praises his own wares

91] Don’t ride the high horse

92] Saying is one thing, and doing another

93] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

94] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

95] Little by little and bit by bit.

96] Precept begins, examples accomplish

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

98] Friends are thieves of time

99] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

100] No one betrays himself by silence