Famous Proverbs

1] Distance lends enchantment to the view

2] Fish and guests smell in three days

3] No news is good news

4] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

5] Goodness is better than beauty

6] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

7] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

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

9] There is no place like home

10] The result justifies the deed

11] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

12] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

13] Years know more than books

14] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

15] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

16] Time flies

17] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

18] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

19] Good fences make good neighbours

20] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

21] The money you refuse will never do you good

22] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

23] What is deferred is not abandoned

24] Busiest men find the most time

25] Custom reconciles us to everything

26] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

27] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

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

29] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

30] Sweet are the uses of adversity

31] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

32] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

33] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

34] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

35] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

36] He that lives ill, fear follows him

37] Ignorance is the peace of life

38] A fault confessed is half redressed

39] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

40] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

41] Choose thy company before thy drink

42] Familiarity breeds contempt

43] Her that is down need fear no fall

44] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

45] Will is no skill

46] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

47] There is no blindness like ignorance

48] Needs must when the devil drives

49] An obedient wife commands her husband

50] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

51] It is more pain to do nothing than something

52] Wise men do not argue with idiots

53] Corn him well and he will work better

54] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

55] Set a thief to catch a thief

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

57] A little too late, is much too late

58] Marriage makes or mars a man

59] Habit is second nature

60] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

61] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

62] Never too late to learn

63] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

64] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

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

66] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

67] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

68] Let the buyer beware

69] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

70] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

71] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

72] Water is the king of food

73] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

74] First impressions are most lasting

75] Children speak only words they have heard.

76] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

77] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

78] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

79] Dogs bark as they are bred.

80] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

81] Diamond cuts diamond

82] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

83] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

84] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

85] Wife and Children are bills of charges

86] Money has no smell

87] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

88] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

89] A change is as good as rest

90] Many drops make a shower

91] First creep, then walk

92] Praise no man till he is dead.

93] Dirty linen should be washed at home

94] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

95] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

96] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

97] The highest branch is not the safest roost

98] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

99] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

100] No remedy but patience