Famous Proverbs

1] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

2] Love sees no fault

3] Conscience does make cowards of us all

4] God makes the back for the burden

5] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

6] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

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

8] Great trees keep down the little ones

9] Variety takes away satiety

10] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

11] He that seeks trouble never misses

12] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

13] The fox may grow grey, but never good

14] Beware of no man more than himself

15] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

16] Never too late to repent

17] Like question, like answer.

18] Through hardship to the stars

19] A good wife makes a good husband

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

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

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

23] Don’t cry for the moon

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

25] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

26] All things that great men do are well done

27] Every path has a puddle

28] Great talkers are never great doers

29] No sweet without sweat

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

31] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

32] Sickness shows us what we are

33] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

34] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

35] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

36] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

37] Silence is a woman’s best garment

38] Do not triumph before the victory

39] Lookers-on see more than players

40] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

41] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

42] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

43] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

44] Poverty is not a crime

45] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

46] All things are difficult before they are easy

47] Do as the friar says, not as he does

48] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

49] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

50] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

51] Health is not value till sickness comes

52] Shrouds have no pockets

53] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

54] The resolved mind has no cares

55] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

56] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

57] He that desires but little has no deed of much

58] A gift much expected is paid, not given

59] Like mother, like daughter

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

61] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

62] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

63] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

64] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

65] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

66] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

67] Little things are pretty

68] One fool praises another

69] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

70] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

71] The mob tramples on the coward

72] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

73] Waste is not grandeur

74] Dogs bark as they are bred.

75] No man is infallible

76] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

77] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

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

79] Time flees without a delay

80] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

81] Every groom is a king at home

82] All lay loads on a willing horse

83] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

84] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

85] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

86] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

87] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

88] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

89] Life begins only in success

90] A stitch in time saves nine

91] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

92] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

93] He that is down need fear no fall

94] Beware of a silent man and still water

95] One is not smelt where all stink

96] Children and chickens must be always picking

97] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

98] Sorrow will pay no debt

99] One sword keeps another in the sheath

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