Famous Proverbs

1] A door must be either shut or open

2] Common fame is a liar

3] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

4] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

5] He stands not surely that never slips

6] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

7] No man is a hero to his valet

8] A joke’s a very serious thing

9] He who comes late must eat what is left

10] A little impatience will spoil great plans

11] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

12] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

13] He conquers who endures

14] One fool praises another

15] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

16] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

17] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

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

19] He that speaks well, flights well

20] Children and chickens must be always picking

21] Honest is the best policy

22] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

23] Many drops make a shower

24] Time has wings

25] Everything in moderation.

26] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

27] Don’t put the cart before the horse

28] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

29] Rip not up old sores

30] A rolling stone gathers no moss

31] Beauty is only skin deep

32] All good things must come to an end

33] Early sow, early mow

34] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

35] Give a loan and buy quarrel

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

37] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

38] Goodness is better than beauty

39] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

40] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

41] Once a knave, always a knave

42] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

43] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

44] The absent saint gets no candle

45] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

46] The pen is the tongue of the hand

47] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

48] Better to wear out than rust out

49] Learn not and know not

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

51] Don’t tell tales out of school

52] Love knows no limit

53] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

54] Empty vessels make the most sound

55] Wink at small faults

56] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

57] Good luck beats early rising

58] All’s fair in love and war

59] Truth is mighty and will prevail

60] Everyone to his taste

61] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

62] The poor suffer all the wrong

63] If anything can go wrong, it will

64] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

65] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

66] The golden age was never the present age

67] Where there is whispering there is lying

68] Confess and be hanged

69] It’s dogged that does it

70] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

71] Great gain makes easy work

72] Every advantage has its disadvantage

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

74] No choice amongst stinking fish

75] Well done is better than well said

76] Precepts may lead but examples draw

77] Better ask the way than go astray

78] Every groom is a king at home

79] A good payer is master of another’s purse

80] If you would be well served, serve yourself

81] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

82] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

83] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

84] Like mother, like daughter

85] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

86] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

87] All roads lead to Rome

88] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

89] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

90] It is easy to be wise after the event

91] The longest journey starts with a single step

92] A good marksman may miss

93] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

94] Great actions speak minds

95] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

96] The mean is the best

97] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

98] Lend never that thing you needed most

99] Covetousness is the root of all evil

100] Do it now