Famous Proverbs

1] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

2] Much would have more

3] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

4] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

5] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

6] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

7] A constant guest is never welcome

8] Art improves Nature

9] Small is the seed of every greatness

10] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

11] As you brew, so shall you drink.

12] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

13] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

14] You cannot unscramble eggs

15] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

16] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

17] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

18] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

19] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

20] Appetite comes with eating

21] Man proposes, God disposes

22] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

23] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

24] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

25] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

26] One reason is as good as fifty

27] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

28] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

29] Words bind men

30] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

31] Light grows the burden which is well borne

32] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

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

34] Don’t cry for the moon

35] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

36] All’s fish that comes to the net

37] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

38] The envious man shall never want woe

39] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

40] Silence is also speech

41] All that glitters is not gold

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

43] A bully is always a coward

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

45] Error cannot be defended but by error

46] Delays are not denials

47] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

48] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

49] A rich man can do nothing wrong

50] Tomorrow never comes

51] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

52] Like master, like man

53] Come with the wind, got with the water

54] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

55] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

56] Law makers should not be law breakers

57] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

58] Ambition loses many a man

59] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

60] A straight stick is crooked in water

61] Moderation in all things

62] Have two strings to your bow

63] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

64] Better learn late than never

65] No man is his craft’s master the first day

66] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

67] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

68] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

69] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

70] Wishes can never fill a sack

71] Names are debts

72] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

73] Ready money is a ready remedy

74] All things are difficult before they are easy

75] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

76] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

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

78] Blue are the far away hills

79] Man punishes the action but God the intention

80] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

81] New brooms sweep clean

82] The faulty stands on his guard

83] A bribe will enter without knocking

84] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

85] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

86] Never too late to late to repent

87] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

88] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

89] Every commodity has its discommodity

90] There is a black sheep in every flock

91] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

92] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

93] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

94] Love conquers all

95] First come, first served

96] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

97] The course of true love never did run smooth

98] Wake not a sleeping lion

99] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

100] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind