Famous Proverbs

1] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

2] One may change the place but not the mind.

3] None so deaf as those that will not hear

4] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

5] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

6] Variety is charming

7] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

8] If one will not, another will

9] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

10] Better be safe than sorry

11] Gold will not buy everything

12] Life begins only in success

13] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

14] Two heads are better than one

15] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

16] Money isn’t everything

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

18] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

19] 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.

20] Marriages are made in heaven

21] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

22] He would command must serve

23] Wink at small faults

24] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

25] He freezes who does not burn

26] Ready money is a ready remedy

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

28] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

29] Error cannot be defended but by error

30] Charity excuseth not cheating.

31] Dead men tell no tales

32] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

33] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

34] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

35] The lion had need of the mouse

36] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

37] Children and fools have merry lives

38] Few words are best

39] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

40] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

41] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

42] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

43] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

44] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

45] It takes two to make a quarrel

46] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

47] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

48] Fair without, false within

49] Grief pent up will break the heart

50] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

51] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

52] A jack of all traders is master of none

53] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

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

55] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

56] There is no tree but bears some fruit

57] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

58] Give and take is fair play

59] No garden without its weeds.

60] One man’s loss is another’s gain

61] Accidents will happen

62] None but the brave deserves the fair

63] All for one, and one for all.

64] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

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

66] Grasp all, lose all

67] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

68] Too much curiosity lost paradise

69] Erring is not heating

70] Wiles help weak folk

71] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

72] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

73] Praise no man till he is dead.

74] First things first

75] Findings are keepings

76] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

77] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

78] It is a great victory that comes without blood

79] Faint heart never won fair lady

80] The deed comes back upon the doer.

81] Acorns were good till bread was found

82] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

83] A healthy man is a successful man

84] He travels the fastest who travels alone

85] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

86] Hunger breaks stone walls

87] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

88] Crust is better than no bread

89] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

90] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

91] First impressions are most lasting

92] We shall lie all alike in our graves

93] No feast lasts forever.

94] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

95] Work won’t kill but worry will.

96] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

97] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

98] A man with no hands is given a ring.

99] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

100] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him