Famous Proverbs

1] Fish begins to stink at the head

2] No tie can oblige the perfidious

3] There are spots even in the sun

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

5] The mean is the best

6] A bad padlock invites a picklock

7] Everything is good in its season

8] Time flies

9] The value of money is having it.

10] We live laws, not by examples

11] The more laws, the more offenders

12] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

13] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

14] Friendship should not be all on one

15] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

16] Mere wishes are silly fishes

17] Waste makes wants

18] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

19] There’s always room at the top

20] Don’t kick against the pricks

21] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

22] An Englishman’s home is his castle

23] He stands not surely that never slips

24] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

25] All lay loads on a willing horse

26] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

27] A good heart cannot lie.

28] Go not to hell for company

29] The love of money is the root of all evil

30] All’s fish that comes to the net

31] One kindness is the price of another

32] Better an apple given than eaten

33] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

34] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

35] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

36] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

37] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

38] Learn not and know not

39] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

40] The wisest of the wise may err.

41] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

42] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

43] Never spend your money before you have it

44] No pains, no gains

45] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

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

47] Bad luck often brings good luck

48] A short cut is often a wrong cut

49] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

50] The lion had need of the mouse

51] He that knows little often repeats it

52] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

53] He that has no shame has no conscience

54] Adventures are to be adventurous

55] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

56] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

57] Out of sight, out of mind

58] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

59] The voice is the best music

60] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

61] Hope keeps man alive

62] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

63] Practice makes perfect

64] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

65] Birds of a feather flock together

66] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

67] The longest journey starts with a single step

68] History repeats itself

69] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

70] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

71] The eye is bigger than the belly

72] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

73] A man may bear till his back breaks

74] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

75] A house divided against itself cannot stand

76] Example is the greatest of all seducers

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

78] Good ware makes quick market

79] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

80] Love is blind

81] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

82] Rust wastes more than use

83] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

84] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

85] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

86] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

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

88] Nature abhors a vacuum

89] All our pomp the earth covers

90] Every law has a loophole

91] It is a shame to be shameless

92] One master in a house is enough

93] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

94] A mouse may help a lion

95] Common fame is a liar

96] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

97] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

98] Forgive and forget

99] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

100] He that touches pitch shall be defiled