Famous Proverbs

1] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

2] Trust not the many-minded populace

3] Creditors have better memories than debtors

4] Opportunity makes the thief

5] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

6] A good name is sooner lost than won

7] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

8] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

9] Dreams are lies

10] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

11] A short cut is often a wrong cut

12] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

13] Do as you would be done by

14] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

15] It’s dogged that does it

16] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

17] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

18] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

19] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

20] Change of pasture makes fat calves

21] Dog does not eat dog

22] He that speaks not, God hears not

23] Nature surpasses art

24] Beauty draws more than oxen

25] Much science, much sorrow

26] Silence gives (or means) consent

27] A little is better than none

28] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

29] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

30] Dead men don’t bite

31] Nothing succeeds like success

32] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

33] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

34] Good clothes open all doors

35] Little pitchers have big ears.

36] Business is business

37] Silence is a woman’s best garment

38] An old man is a bed full of bones

39] Care brings grey hair.

40] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

41] Travel broadens the mind

42] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

43] Riches along make no men happy

44] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

45] Love sees no fault

46] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

47] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

48] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

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

50] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

51] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

52] More have repented speech than silence

53] Example is better than precept

54] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

55] You may know by a handful the whole sack

56] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

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

58] The pen is the tongue of the hand

59] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

60] Children and fools have merry lives

61] Make the best of a bad job

62] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

63] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

64] Sow thin and mow thin

65] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

66] Tempt not a desperate man

67] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

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

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

70] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

71] A woman’s work is never done

72] The king can do no wrong

73] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

74] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

75] Love is never without jealousy

76] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

77] Even Homer sometimes nods

78] The leopard cannot change its spots

79] A wise man hears one word and understands two

80] Heaven helps those who help themselves

81] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

82] A fault once denied is twice committed

83] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

84] Shrouds have no pockets

85] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

86] An ill tongue may do much

87] Ill news comes apace.

88] There is a great difference between words and deeds

89] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

90] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

91] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

92] A bully is always a coward

93] A man may learn wit every day.

94] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

95] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

96] Pitchers have ears

97] There is no accounting for tastes

98] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

99] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

100] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores