Famous Proverbs

1] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

2] Practice is the science that gives confidence

3] The faulty stands on his guard

4] All men are mortal

5] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

6] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

7] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

8] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

9] Empty vessels make the most noise

10] God is always on the side of the big battalions

11] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

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

13] Poverty is not a crime

14] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

15] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

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

17] Nature is conquered by obeying her

18] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

19] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

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

21] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

22] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

23] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

24] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

25] The more wicked, the more lucky

26] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

27] Like father, like son

28] None but the brave deserves the fair

29] Ill luck is good for something

30] Good to begin well, better to end well.

31] It is more pain to do nothing than something

32] Children learn to creep ere they can go

33] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

34] A rolling stone gathers no moss

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

36] He who serves is not free

37] The company makes the feast

38] Too much hope deceives

39] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

40] Repentance is a bitter physic

41] Desires are nourished by delays

42] In the end, things will mend

43] Past cure, past care

44] A learned man has always riches in himself

45] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

46] The race is got by running

47] You never know what you can do till you try

48] Pleasing ware is half sold

49] Without diligence, no prize

50] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

51] He that lives ill, fear follows him

52] Virtue is its own reward

53] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

54] Easier said than done

55] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

56] Necessity is a powerful weapon

57] A soft answer turns away wrath

58] The king can do no wrong

59] Wine is the best broom for trouble

60] He who has seen little marvels much

61] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

62] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

63] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

64] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

65] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

66] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

67] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

68] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

69] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

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

71] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

72] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

73] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

74] Time and tide wait for no man

75] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

76] Take away fuel, take away flame

77] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

78] One barber shaves another gratis

79] All men are mortal

80] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

81] Forewarned is forearmed

82] Human blood is all of a colour

83] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

84] Little by little and bit by bit.

85] Fire is a good servant a bad master

86] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

87] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

88] Quickly come, quickly go

89] We live laws, not by examples

90] One can’t help many, but many can help one

91] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

92] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

93] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

94] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

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

96] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

97] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

98] Gold will not buy everything

99] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

100] Mere wishes are silly fishes