Famous Proverbs

1] Gold may be bought too dear

2] The more laws, the more offenders

3] The borrower is servant to the lender

4] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

5] Words are but wind

6] They that dance must pay the fiddler

7] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

8] So many countries, so many customs

9] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

10] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

11] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

12] A fool and his money are soon parted

13] A man’s studies pass in to his character

14] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

15] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

16] Every man praises his own wares

17] That which proves too much proves nothing

18] A willful man will have his way

19] Suffering does not manifest itself

20] What is the mother of industry

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

22] Never judge from appearances

23] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

24] Health and money go far

25] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

26] More than enough is too much

27] When one door shuts, another opens

28] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

29] Fire is a good servant a bad master

30] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

31] It is misery enough to have once been happy

32] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

33] What’s done is done

34] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

35] Threatened folk live long

36] Might knows no right

37] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

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

39] From word to deed is a great space

40] A parrot will only say what it is taught

41] A man’s wealth is his enemy

42] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

43] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

44] Advise none to marry or to go to war

45] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

46] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

47] Birds once snared fear all bushes

48] Safety lies in the middle course

49] Give credit where credit is due

50] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

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

52] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

53] God made the country ,and man made the town

54] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

55] One of these days is none of these days

56] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

57] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

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

59] Like mother, like daughter

60] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

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

62] What is worth doing is worth doing well

63] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

64] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

65] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

66] There are spots even in the sun

67] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

68] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

69] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

70] All’s fish that comes to the net

71] Don’t ride the high horse

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

73] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

74] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

75] Abundance, like want, ruins many

76] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

77] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

78] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

79] Home is home though it be never so homely

80] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

81] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

82] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

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

84] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

85] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

86] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

87] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

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

89] All truths are not to be told

90] The owl thinks her own young fairest

91] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

92] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

93] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

94] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

95] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

96] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

97] Every little helps

98] He that repairs not a part, builds all

99] Covetousness breaks the sack

100] Dead men don’t bite