Famous Proverbs

1] Share and share alike

2] Never too late to late to repent

3] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

4] Everything would fain live

5] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

6] It never rains it pours

7] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

8] Jack is as good as his master

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

10] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

11] He freezes who does not burn

12] Will is no skill

13] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

14] Go while the going is good

15] Better be safe than sorry

16] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

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

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

19] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

20] All’s fish that comes to the net

21] The more laws, the more offenders

22] Delay is the antidote of anger

23] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

24] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

25] Nothing comes from nothing

26] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

27] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

28] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

29] It is the unexpected that always happens

30] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

31] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

32] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

33] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

34] Divine grace was never slow

35] Advice when most needed is least heeded

36] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

37] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

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

39] Lookers-on see most of the game

40] There is no rose without a thorn

41] If one will not, another will

42] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

43] Little wealth, little care

44] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

45] By falling we learn to go safely

46] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

47] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

48] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

49] Homer sometimes nods

50] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

51] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

52] Tomorrow is another day

53] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

54] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

55] Words bind men

56] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

57] All griefs with bread are less

58] Forewarned is forearmed

59] He that pities another remembers himself

60] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

61] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

62] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

63] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

64] A burnt child dreads the fire

65] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

66] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

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

68] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

69] He that does most at once, does least

70] All things for not all persons

71] For a web begun, God sends the thread

72] Empty vessels make the most noise

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

74] Despair gives courage to a coward

75] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

76] Many a true word is spoken in jest

77] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

78] The more wicked, the more lucky

79] Hard cases make bad law

80] High places have their precipices

81] A door must be either shut or open

82] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

83] Do not wear out your welcome

84] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

85] Many hands make light work

86] Rome was not built in a day

87] Findings are keepings

88] A fault once denied is twice committed

89] To err is human

90] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

91] Variety is charming

92] Blood will have blood

93] Open confession is good for the soul

94] An oak is not felled at one stroke

95] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

96] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

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

98] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

99] Wash your dirty linen at home

100] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.