Famous Proverbs

1] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

2] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

3] East or west, home is best

4] A good example is the best sermon

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

6] When bees area old, they yield n honey

7] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

8] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

9] Do as say, not as I do

10] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

11] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

12] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

13] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

14] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

15] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

16] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

17] Friendship should not be all on one

18] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

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

20] Adam’s ale is the best brew

21] Wrong never comes right

22] Soft fire makes sweet malt

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

24] Every dog has his (its) day

25] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

26] He who demands does not command

27] There is safety in numbers

28] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

29] The faulty stands on his guard

30] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

31] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

32] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

33] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

34] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

35] Never refuse a good offer

36] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

37] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

38] It is easy to be wise after the event

39] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

40] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

41] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

42] Other times, other manners

43] One swallow does not make a summer

44] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

45] Death alone can kill hope

46] Conscience does make cowards of us all

47] Where god will help, nothing does harm

48] Little things are great to little men

49] Corn him well and he will work better

50] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

51] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

52] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

53] What is worse than ill luck?

54] Every dog is a lion at home

55] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

56] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

57] Do as say, not as I do

58] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

59] A good marksman may miss

60] Truth has no need of rhetoric

61] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

62] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

63] An old fox is not easily snared

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

65] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

66] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

67] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

68] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

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

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

71] He that is born a fool is never cured

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

73] See which way the cat jumps

74] A man may bear till his back breaks

75] One is what one eats

76] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

77] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

78] All that glitters is not gold

79] Don’t put the cart before the horse

80] Soon hot, soon cold

81] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

82] Friends are thieves of time

83] Keep some till further more come

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

85] Better say noting than no to the purpose

86] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

87] A good paymaster needs no surety

88] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

89] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

90] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

91] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

92] Wrong has no warrant

93] No remedy but patience

94] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

95] A good wife makes a good husband

96] Death is the grand leveler

97] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

98] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

99] Anger managers everything badly.

100] Health without money is half an ague