Famous Proverbs

1] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

2] All glory comes from daring to begin

3] Union is strength.

4] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

5] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

6] Procrastination is the thief of time

7] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

8] Money is the root of all evil

9] Be careful to whom you give

10] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

11] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

12] Make hay while the sun shines

13] A soft answer turns away wrath

14] Every little helps

15] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

16] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

17] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

18] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

19] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

20] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

21] A penny saved is a penny gained

22] The axe falls on a straight tree first

23] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

24] Save your breath to cool the porridge

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

26] Like mother, like daughter

27] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

28] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

29] Many doctors, death accomplished

30] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

31] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

32] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

33] Like master, like man

34] As you sow, so shall you reap

35] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

36] Wash your dirty linen at home

37] You can’t tell a book by its cover

38] A friend in need is a friend indeed

39] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

40] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

41] One must be a servant before one can be a master

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

43] Paddle your own canoe

44] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

45] He that repairs not a part, builds all

46] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

47] The labour we delight in physics pain

48] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

49] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

50] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

51] Children and chickens must be always picking

52] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

53] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

54] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

55] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

56] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

57] Bread is the staff of life.

58] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

59] A penny saved is a penny gained

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

61] Much would have more

62] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

63] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

64] An old fox is not easily snared

65] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

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

67] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

68] The devil looks after his own

69] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

70] Wine unveils the words of the heart

71] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

72] Every little helps

73] No man limps because another is hurt

74] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

75] Diligence is the mother of good luck

76] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

77] Once bitten, twice shy.

78] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

79] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

80] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

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

82] Where there’s a will there’s a way

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

84] The great would have none great, and the little all little

85] Words are but wind

86] A beggar can never be bankrupt

87] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

88] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

89] Precepts may lead but examples draw

90] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

91] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

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

93] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

94] The coward threatens only when he is safe

95] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

96] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

97] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

98] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

99] First creep, then walk

100] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned