Famous Proverbs

1] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

2] Friends are thieves of time

3] The slowest barker is the surest biter

4] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

5] He who demands does not command

6] The road to hell is paved with good action

7] Good ware makes quick market

8] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

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

10] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

11] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

12] Fair play’s a jewel

13] Nothing crave, nothing have

14] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

15] Slow but sure wins the race

16] Quietness is a great treasure

17] When angry, count a hundred

18] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

19] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

20] Heaven helps those who help themselves

21] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

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

23] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

24] Through obedience learn to command.

25] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

26] The mob has many heads but no brains

27] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

28] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

29] Every man must carry his own cross

30] When bees area old, they yield n honey

31] Every may be has a may not be

32] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

33] No feast lasts forever.

34] Extremes meet

35] What is a workman without his tools?

36] We have all been once in our life

37] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

38] Nature is conquered by obeying her

39] Give credit where credit is due

40] There is safety in numbers

41] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

42] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

43] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

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

45] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

46] The early man ever borrows from the late man

47] The good is often the enemy of the best

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

49] Know thyself

50] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

51] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

52] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

53] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

54] Double charge will rive a cannon

55] Think of ease, but work on.

56] A good friend is my nearest relation

57] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

58] Truth has no need of rhetoric

59] Lend never that thing you needed most

60] It is the first step that is troublesome

61] One cannot put back the clock

62] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

63] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

64] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

65] No pains, no gains

66] Never buy a pig in a poke

67] Never do things by halves

68] Wisdom is better than strength

69] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

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

71] Open confession is good for the soul

72] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

73] Good is good but better carries it

74] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

75] Saying is one thing, and doing another

76] Beware of a silent man and still water

77] Saying is one thing, and doing another

78] Soon hot, soon cold

79] It is useless to flog a dead horse

80] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

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

82] None but the brave deserves the fair

83] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

84] A cat has nine lives

85] Where there are reeds, there is water

86] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

87] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

88] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

89] Love laughs at locksmiths

90] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

91] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

92] He that speaks well, flights well

93] Give a loan and buy quarrel

94] Many hands make light work

95] Rome was not built in a day

96] Might overcome right.

97] Patient waiters are no losers

98] No man is born wise or learned

99] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

100] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf