Famous Proverbs

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

2] From word to deed is a great space

3] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

4] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

5] First impressions are the most lasting

6] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

7] Plain dealing is a jewel

8] Full of courtesy, full of craft

9] One thief will not rob another

10] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

11] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

12] Two wrongs do not make a right

13] He that has a wife, has strife

14] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

15] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

16] He who touches pitch will be defiled

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

18] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

19] An old dog barks not in vain

20] No man is indispensable

21] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

22] Weak things united become strong

23] As soon as there is life there is danger

24] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

25] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

26] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

27] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

28] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

29] He that sows virtue reaps fame

30] Years know more than books

31] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

32] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

33] Bear and forbear

34] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

35] Better say noting than no to the purpose

36] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

37] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

38] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

39] Children and fools cannot lie.

40] One hand washes the other

41] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

42] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

43] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

44] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

45] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

46] Let not your tongue run at rover

47] The tongue talks at the heads cost

48] Delays are not denials

49] Love is without reason

50] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

51] No man is born wise or learned

52] He that has an ill name is half hanged

53] A hungry man is angry man

54] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

55] Do as the friar says, not as he does

56] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

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

58] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

59] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

60] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

61] Cut your coat according to your cloth

62] An army marches on its stomach

63] Beauty is only skin deep

64] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

65] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

66] There is nothing permanent except change

67] The last suitor wins the maid

68] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

69] You cannot unscramble eggs

70] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

71] Mere wishes are silly fishes

72] Woes unite foes

73] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

74] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

75] Excessive happiness produces pain

76] Money can influence even the spirits

77] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

78] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

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

80] The king can do no wrong

81] Wise men silent, fools talk

82] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

83] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

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

85] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

86] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

87] Marriage is a lottery

88] Now is now, and then was then

89] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

90] He who never was sick dies the first fit

91] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

92] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

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

94] Truth is mighty and will prevail

95] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

96] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

97] Ill news comes unsent for.

98] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

99] A good wife is a good prize

100] The best go first