Famous Proverbs

1] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

2] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

3] Soft fire makes sweet malt

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

5] Union is strength.

6] Too many cooks spoil the broth

7] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

8] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

9] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

10] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

11] A good example is the best sermon

12] Adam’s ale is the best brew

13] No man fears what he has seen grow

14] Birds of a feather flock together

15] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

16] Small is beautiful

17] Bad news travels fast

18] There is nothing permanent except change

19] Give credit where credit is due

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

21] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

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

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

24] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

25] A little help is worth a deal of pity

26] Take things as they come

27] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

28] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

29] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

30] Money talks

31] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

32] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

33] It is the first step that is troublesome

34] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

35] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

36] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

37] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

38] A man may learn wit every day.

39] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

40] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

41] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

42] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

43] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

44] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

45] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

46] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

47] What the king wills, that the law wills

48] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

49] For a web begun, God sends the thread

50] In everything consider the end

51] He that eats well should do his duty well

52] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

53] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

54] A word is enough to the wise

55] Virtue joints man to god

56] A good beginning makes a good ending.

57] Time lost cannot be recalled

58] No pain, no cure

59] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

60] Health is great riches

61] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

62] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

63] Where god will help, nothing does harm

64] Wrong never comes right

65] Empty vessels make the most sound

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

67] Great hopes make great men

68] Better bend than break

69] Look before you leap

70] The good die young.

71] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

72] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

73] No wrong without a remedy

74] Erring is not heating

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

76] Save your breath to cool the porridge

77] Ill gotten, ill spent

78] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

79] Children and chickens must be always picking

80] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

81] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

82] Cheap is dear in the long run.

83] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

84] Wedlock is padlock

85] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

86] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

87] Precept begins, examples accomplish

88] The darkest place is under the candlestick

89] The more cost, the more honour

90] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

91] It is all in the day’s work

92] Diligence is the mother of good luck

93] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

94] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

95] A willful man will have his way

96] Two blacks do not make a white

97] The absent saint gets no candle

98] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

99] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

100] Corruption of the best becomes the worst