Famous Proverbs

1] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

2] The good die young.

3] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

4] A prophet is without honour in his own country

5] Necessity is the mother of invention

6] He that lives ill, fear follows him

7] Who suffers much is silent

8] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

9] Virtue is the only true nobility

10] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

11] Honesty is ill to thrive by

12] Pitchers have ears

13] Work won’t kill but worry will.

14] A good name is better than riches

15] Death is the grand leveler

16] Out of sight, out of mind

17] The devil lurks behind the cross

18] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

19] Heaven helps those who help themselves

20] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

21] There’s no place like home

22] He that promises too much means nothing

23] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

24] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

25] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

26] First things first

27] Honesty is the best policy

28] It is easier to pull down than to build

29] A good heart conquers ill fortune

30] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

31] Things past cannot be recalled

32] Better to be safe than sorry.

33] Everything new is fine

34] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

35] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

36] All things require skills but an appetite

37] All for one, and one for all.

38] A useful trade is a mine of gold

39] United we stand, divided we fall

40] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

41] Great gain makes easy work

42] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

43] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

44] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

45] He that brings good news, knocks hard

46] The end justifies the means

47] The absent party is always to blame.

48] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

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

50] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

51] No man limps because another is hurt

52] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

53] Much learning makes men mad

54] Evil to him who evil thinks.

55] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

56] Never spur a willing horse

57] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

58] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

59] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

60] He that eats least eats most

61] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

62] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

63] The golden age was never the present age

64] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

65] Every light has its shadow

66] He that has good money, gives few alms

67] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

68] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

69] He who has seen little marvels much

70] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

71] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

72] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

73] Will is the cause of woe

74] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

75] Great oaks from little acorns grow

76] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

77] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

78] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

79] You cannot make a crab walk straight

80] White there’s life there’s hope

81] Charity excuseth not cheating.

82] An evil life is a kind of death.

83] The axe falls on a straight tree first

84] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

85] What the king wills, that the law wills

86] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

87] Abundance, like want, ruins many

88] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

89] Long looked for, comes at last

90] A bad workman always blames his tools

91] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

92] Great minds think alike

93] Misfortune makes foes of friends

94] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

95] Where there is no might, right loses itself

96] Where there is peace, there is blessing

97] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

98] A hungry man smells meat afar off

99] Exchange is no robbery

100] Nature hates all sudden changes