Famous Proverbs

1] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

2] Wrong has no warrant

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

4] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

5] Wrong has no warrant

6] Home is where the heart is

7] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

8] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

9] Master easy, servant slack

10] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

11] Fool’s haste is no speed

12] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

13] More than enough is too much

14] Frugality is the mother of virtue

15] All’s fair in love and war

16] The result justifies the deed

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

18] Take time by the forelock

19] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

20] Birds of a feather flock together

21] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

22] Of evil manners, spring good laws

23] A prophet is without honour in his own country

24] Patient men with the day.

25] After a storm comes a calm

26] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

27] A little too late, is much too late

28] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

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

30] Will is no skill

31] Friendship should not be all on one side

32] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

33] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

34] More than enough is too much

35] Two blacks do not make a white

36] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

37] A bully is always a coward

38] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

39] Silence never makes mistakes

40] Variety is the spice of life

41] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

42] Put out your tubs when it is raining

43] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

44] Children should be seen and not heard

45] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

46] If you want peace, prepare for war

47] Haste makes waste

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

49] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

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

51] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

52] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

53] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

54] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

55] The tailor makes the man

56] No land without stones, or meat without bones

57] Every beginning is hard

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

59] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

60] Her that is down need fear no fall

61] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

62] Every cloud has a silver lining

63] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

64] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

65] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

66] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

67] Every advantage has its disadvantage

68] Haste is of (or from) the devil

69] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

70] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

71] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

72] There is none misfortune cannot reach

73] Exchange is no robbery

74] Don’t cry before you are hurt

75] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

76] A good payer is master of another’s purse

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

78] A good paymaster never wants workmen

79] A jack of all traders is master of none

80] No hair so small but has his shadow

81] He who begins many things, finishes but few

82] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

83] Don’t tell tales out of school

84] To err is human

85] Many hands make light work

86] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

87] Necessity breaks iron

88] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

89] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

90] Ready money is ready medicine

91] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

92] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

93] All lay loads on a willing horse

94] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

95] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

96] More haste, less speed

97] Bare walls make giddy housewives

98] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

99] Think on the end before you begin

100] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun