Famous Proverbs

1] It is ill striving against the stream

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

3] What’s in a name?

4] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

5] A good lather is half the shave

6] A still tongue makes a wise head

7] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

8] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

9] A hungry man is angry man

10] Soon hot, soon cold

11] Practice what you preach

12] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

13] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

14] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

15] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

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

17] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

18] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

19] Numbers overcome the brave

20] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

21] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

22] Look before you leap

23] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

24] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

25] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

26] A good garden may have some ill weeds

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

28] Waste is not grandeur

29] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

30] Pardon makes offenders

31] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

32] No choice amongst stinking fish

33] Jesters do oft prove prophets

34] A merchant that gains not, loses

35] Covetousness is the root of all evil

36] Better be alone than in bad company

37] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

38] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

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

40] A good name is a rich heritage

41] He laughs best who laughs last

42] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

43] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

44] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

45] Where there is no trust there is no love

46] A good servant must have good wages

47] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

48] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

49] Every advantage has its disadvantage

50] A prophet is without honour in his own country

51] He knows the water best who has waded through it

52] Open a book and you profit by what you read

53] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

54] The labourer is worthy of his hire

55] There is nothing that costs less than civility

56] Leave well alone

57] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

58] The envious man shall never want woe

59] One father is more than a hundred school masters

60] The exception proves the rule

61] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

62] One must howl with the wolves

63] The greatest step is that out of doors

64] Waste not, want not

65] An army marches on its stomach

66] Love is never without jealousy

67] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

68] Master easy, servant slack

69] At a good bargain thinks twice

70] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

71] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

72] Old foxes want no tutors

73] There’s a black sheep in every flock

74] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

75] He that burns most, shines most

76] Silence gives (or means) consent

77] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

78] Lend your money and lose a friend

79] Seeing is believing

80] Change brings life

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

82] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

83] Do as the friar says, not as he does

84] A bribe will enter without knocking

85] True doctrines require no miracles

86] God is a sure paymaster

87] The early man ever borrows from the late man

88] No man so good but another may be as good as he

89] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

90] One is what one eats

91] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

92] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

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

94] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

95] Love and business teach eloquence

96] Other times, other manners

97] A man of courage never wants weapons

98] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

99] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

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