Famous Proverbs

1] He that is absent is soon forgotten

2] Friendship should not be all on one side

3] Leave well alone

4] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

5] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

6] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

7] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

8] Example, is better than precept

9] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

10] Hope keeps man alive

11] Few words are best

12] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

13] As you bake, so shall you eat.

14] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

15] Necessity is mother of invention

16] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

17] Everything is good in its season

18] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

19] That which proves too much proves nothing

20] Revenge is sweet

21] There is no tree but bears some fruit

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

23] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

24] Wise men do not argue with idiots

25] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

26] Patience is a plaster for all sores

27] Self do, self have

28] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

29] Manners and money make a gentleman

30] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

31] Fool’s haste is no speed

32] History repeats itself

33] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

34] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

35] The child is father of the man

36] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

37] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

38] You may have too much of a good thing

39] Common fame is seldom to blame

40] No man is wise at all times

41] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

42] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

43] Without diligence, no prize

44] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

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

46] The absent party is always to blame.

47] Procrastination is the thief of time

48] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

49] One fool praises another

50] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

51] Conscience does make cowards of us all

52] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

53] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

54] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

55] Mercy surpasses justice

56] Nature hates all sudden changes

57] No flying without wings.

58] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

59] Human blood is all of a colour

60] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

61] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

62] The company makes the feast

63] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

64] Better sit still than rise and fall

65] Prove your friend ere you have need

66] A fool may give a wise man counsel

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

68] Money refused loses its brightness

69] You can’t tell a book by its cover

70] Rust wastes more than use

71] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

72] He thinks not well that thinks not again

73] See which way the cat jumps

74] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

75] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

76] A fool always rushes to the fore.

77] Good clothes open all doors

78] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

79] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

80] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

81] Things are only worth one makes them worth

82] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

83] First think, and then speak

84] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

85] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

86] Every bean has its black

87] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

88] Beware of no man more than himself

89] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

90] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

91] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

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

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

94] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

95] A good friend is my nearest relation

96] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

97] A heavy purse makes a light heart

98] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

99] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

100] Tomorrow never comes