Famous Proverbs

1] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

2] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

3] Ill luck is good for something

4] Love delights in praise

5] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

6] No man is born wise or learned

7] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

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

9] Like mother, like daughter

10] Money can influence even the spirits

11] A hungry man is angry man

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

13] The greatest talkers are the least doers

14] Every beginning is hard

15] Envy never enriched any man.

16] Virtue is its own reward

17] Vice makes virtue shine

18] Like father, like son

19] The first step is the hardest

20] That which is easily done is soon believed

21] Rich folk have many friends

22] You may have too much of a good thing

23] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

24] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

25] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

26] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

27] A good wife is a good prize

28] Beware of a silent man and still water

29] Lend never that thing you needed most

30] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

31] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

32] Desires are nourished by delays

33] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

34] All’s fair in love and war

35] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

36] Small is the seed of every greatness

37] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

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

39] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

40] Forgive and forget

41] Make the best of a bad bargain

42] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

43] All griefs with bread are less

44] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

45] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

46] There is honour among thieves

47] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

48] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

49] Mercy surpasses justice

50] Woes unite foes

51] He that has good money, gives few alms

52] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

53] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

54] A good lather is half the shave

55] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

56] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

57] Kingdoms divided soon fall

58] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

59] The mob tramples on the coward

60] It is ill jesting with edged tools

61] A heavy purse makes a light heart

62] Better bend than break

63] A good friend is my nearest relation

64] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

65] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

66] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

67] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

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

69] He gives twice who gives quickly

70] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

71] The labour we delight in physics pain

72] It takes a wise man to be a fool

73] Beggars must not be choosers

74] Remember, you are but a man

75] In the land of hope there is never any winter

76] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

77] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

78] There is safety in numbers

79] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

80] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

81] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

82] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

83] Love me, love my dog

84] Double charge will rive a cannon

85] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

86] Delays are not denials

87] We soon believe what we desire

88] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

89] If today will not, tomorrow may

90] As you sow, so shall you reap

91] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

92] No garden without its weeds.

93] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

94] Men are known by the company they keep.

95] Share and share alike

96] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

97] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

98] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

99] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

100] As soon as man is born, he begins to die