Famous Proverbs

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

2] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

3] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

4] Even water has its ebb and flow

5] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

6] Her that is down need fear no fall

7] To err is human; to forgive, divine

8] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

9] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

10] Money is power

11] He that seeks trouble never misses

12] An old man is a bed full of bones

13] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

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

15] He mediates revenge who least complains.

16] Circumstances alter cases

17] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

18] Friendship should not be all on one side

19] Brevity is the soul of wit

20] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

21] 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.

22] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

23] Do not wear out your welcome

24] Example is better than precept

25] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

26] The value of money is having it.

27] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

28] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

29] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

30] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

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

32] What is the mother of industry

33] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

34] Every man praises his own wares

35] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

36] No man is wise at all times

37] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

38] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

39] A strong town is not won in an hour

40] Silence is also speech

41] He that talks much, errs much

42] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

43] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

44] Dirty linen should be washed at home

45] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

46] Little pitchers have big ears.

47] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

48] No sweet without sweat

49] Love delights in praise

50] The mean is the best

51] By his deeds we know a man

52] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

53] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

54] It is more pain to do nothing than something

55] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

56] An Englishman’s home is his castle

57] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

58] After a storm comes a calm

59] Success has many friends

60] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

61] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

62] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

63] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

64] Live and Learn

65] One barber shaves another gratis

66] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

67] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

68] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

69] Fine feathers make fine birds.

70] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

71] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

72] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

73] Necessity is a powerful weapon

74] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

75] None but the brave deserves the fair

76] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

77] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

78] Habit is second nature

79] Better late than never

80] You win some, you lose some

81] Union (or Unity) is strength

82] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

83] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

84] First impressions are the most lasting

85] There is no place like home

86] Loyalty is worth more than money

87] All must be as God will

88] There is no blindness like ignorance

89] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

90] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

91] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

92] Words cut more than swords

93] After a storm comes a calm

94] There is a great difference between words and deeds

95] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

96] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

97] The good is often the enemy of the best

98] No choice amongst stinking fish

99] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

100] Half the world knows not how the other half lives