Famous Proverbs

1] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

2] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

3] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

4] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

5] Cowards die many times before their deaths

6] Help a lame dog over a stile

7] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

8] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

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

10] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

11] A bully never grows up.

12] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

13] Lavishness is not generosity

14] Every dog is valiant at his won door

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

16] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

17] Adventures are to be adventurous

18] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

19] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

20] Handsome is as handsome does

21] Water is the king of food

22] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

23] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

24] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

25] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

26] Lovers are madmen

27] The tide must be taken when it comes

28] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

29] Great minds think alike

30] Long life has long misery

31] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

32] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

33] Keep something for a rainy day

34] A good paymaster never wants workmen

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

36] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

37] Erring is not heating

38] Give and take is fair play

39] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

40] An honest good look covers many faults.

41] Necessity breaks iron

42] Between two stools you fall to the ground

43] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

44] Pleasing ware is half sold

45] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

46] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

47] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

48] A good name is better than a golden girdle

49] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

50] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

51] Old cattle breed not

52] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

53] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

54] Art improves Nature

55] Spread the table, and contention will cease

56] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

57] Bear with evil and expect good

58] A short cut is often a wrong cut

59] An obedient wife commands her husband

60] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

61] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

62] No one ought to judge in his own cause

63] Bind the sack before it be full

64] Beggars must not be choosers

65] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

66] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

67] Don’t tell tales out of school

68] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

69] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

70] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

71] Rust wastes more than use

72] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

73] Step by step the ladder is ascended

74] Do it now

75] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

76] God’s lambs will play.

77] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

78] It’s a long lane that has no turning

79] Don’t cry stinking fish

80] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

81] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

82] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

83] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

84] He knows most who speaks least

85] Dogs bark as they are bred.

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

87] Words and feathers the wind carries away

88] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

89] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

90] The devil dances in an empty pocket

91] Of a new prince, new bondage

92] You cannot make bricks without straw

93] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

94] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

95] Do unto others as they should do unto you

96] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

97] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

98] An oak is not felled at one stroke

99] No one betrays himself by silence

100] A golden key opens every door