Famous Proverbs

1] No pain, no cure

2] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

3] An obedient wife commands her husband

4] Exchange is no robbery

5] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

6] Extremity of right is wrong

7] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

8] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

9] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

10] Beauty is but skin-deep

11] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

12] Better children weep than old men

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

14] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

15] Suffering does not manifest itself

16] A man in debt is caught in a net

17] No honest man ever repented his honesty

18] For a web begun, God sends the thread

19] Too many cooks spoil the broth

20] Wink at small faults

21] He that has a wife, has strife

22] Virtue is its own reward

23] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

24] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

25] What cannot gold do?

26] Knowledge is power

27] Bad news travels fast

28] You may have too much of a good thing

29] Who suffers much is silent

30] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

31] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

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

33] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

34] A good lather is half the shave

35] Everything must have a beginning

36] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

37] Penny and penny laid up will be many

38] A useful trade is a mine of gold

39] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

40] A good lawyer must be a great liar

41] Save your breath to cool the porridge

42] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

43] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

44] All things are difficult before they are easy

45] Acorns were good till bread was found

46] Man proposes, God disposes

47] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

48] Take away fuel, take away flame

49] Words are but wind

50] Work smart; don’t work hard

51] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

52] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

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

54] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

55] The golden age was never the present age

56] All heiresses are beautiful.

57] A bully is always a coward

58] A man can die but once

59] There is a great difference between words and deeds

60] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

61] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

62] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

63] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

64] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

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

66] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

67] Little and often fills the purse

68] An old man is a bed full of bones

69] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

70] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

71] Money makes the man

72] Haste is of (or from) the devil

73] Delays are not denials

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

75] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

76] All meat pleases not all mouths

77] There is no time like the present

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

79] If you would be well served, serve yourself

80] What everybody says must be true

81] Fair exchange is no robbery

82] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

83] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

84] A friend is easier lost than found

85] Will is the cause of woe

86] A good conscience is a soft pillow

87] Don’t try to run before you walk

88] Much law but little justice

89] A fool always rushes to the fore.

90] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

91] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

92] Nothing seek, nothing find

93] Hard cases make bad law

94] Words and feathers the wind carries away

95] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

96] He that will thrive must rise at five

97] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

98] Love turns pimples

99] If you want peace, prepare for war

100] Never too late to repent