Famous Proverbs

1] A word spoken is past recalling

2] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

3] One good turn deserves another

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

5] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

6] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

7] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

8] One may change the place but not the mind.

9] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

10] All things that great men do are well done

11] Ambition loses many a man

12] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

13] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

14] Empty vessels make the most noise

15] Love is blind

16] What cannot gold do?

17] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

18] Wash your dirty linen at home

19] Judge not of men and things at first sight

20] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

21] Look at the bright side

22] The deed comes back upon the doer.

23] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

24] The wisest of the wise may err.

25] Like mother, like daughter

26] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

27] Bad excuses are worse than none.

28] Dumb men get no lands

29] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

30] Human blood is all of a colour

31] Beware of a silent man and still water

32] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

33] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

34] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

35] The golden age was never the present age

36] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

37] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

38] A man may learn wit every day.

39] Other times, other manners

40] Covetousness is the root of all evil

41] Work won’t kill but worry will.

42] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

43] Covetousness breaks the sack

44] No misfortune will go on forever

45] Health and wealth create beauty

46] Waste makes wants

47] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

48] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

49] A jack of all traders is master of none

50] A rolling stone gathers no moss

51] Go not to hell for company

52] Children and fools have merry lives

53] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

54] Failure teaches success

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

56] A fool and his money are soon parted

57] Variety takes away satiety

58] The wisest of the wise may err.

59] Strike while the iron is hot

60] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

61] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

62] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

63] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

64] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

65] Variety is the spice of life

66] New lords, new laws

67] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

68] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

69] All covet all lose.

70] Light grows the burden which is well borne

71] Take heed is a fair thing

72] Look before you leap

73] Good luck beats early rising

74] Friendship should not be all on one side

75] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

76] Spare the rod and spoil the child

77] Time flies

78] Fingers were made before forks

79] Appetite comes with eating

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

81] No like is the same.

82] Like breeds like

83] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

84] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

85] That which Nature paints never fades

86] Beggars must not be choosers

87] Distance lends enchantment to the view

88] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

89] Truth is stranger than fiction

90] Appearances are deceptive

91] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

92] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

93] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

94] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

95] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

96] Needs must when the devil drives

97] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

98] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

99] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

100] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing