Famous Proverbs

1] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

2] Out of debt, out of danger

3] There is many a fair thing full false

4] The cowl does not make the monk.

5] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

6] First impressions are half the battle

7] He conquers who endures

8] Make haste slowly

9] One master in a house is enough

10] The Pen is mightier than the sword

11] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

12] Wine is the best broom for trouble

13] The borrower is servant to the lender

14] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

15] Dreams are lies

16] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

17] Quietness is a great treasure

18] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

19] Tomorrow is another day

20] He who pays the piper calls the tune

21] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

22] He may find fault that cannot mend

23] Bad excuses are worse than none.

24] A hungry man is angry man

25] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

26] All covet all lose.

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

28] A penny saved is a penny gained

29] The falling drops hollow the stone

30] As you bake, so shall you eat.

31] Beauty opens locked doors

32] The mob has many heads but no brains

33] First catch your hare

34] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

35] Let bygones be bygones

36] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

37] A good lather is half the shave

38] A good husband makes a good wife

39] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

40] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

41] Men are not to be measured in inches

42] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

43] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

44] The resolved mind has no cares

45] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

46] A fault confessed is half redressed

47] Asking costs little

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

49] Do not triumph before the victory

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

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

52] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

53] Two heads are better than one

54] Brevity is the soul of wit

55] Patient men with the day.

56] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

57] It is a great victory that comes without blood

58] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

59] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

60] Every path has a puddle

61] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

62] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

63] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

64] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

65] To teach is to learn twice over

66] Handsome is as handsome does

67] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

68] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

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

70] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

71] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

72] Don’t kick against the pricks

73] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

74] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

75] The greatest talkers are the least doers

76] No road is long with good company

77] Facts are stubborn things

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

79] There is no royal road to learning

80] A good word stills great anger

81] The early bird catches the worm

82] Be careful to whom you give

83] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

84] All is fair in love and war

85] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

86] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

87] The great fish eat up the small

88] Every man must carry his own cross

89] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

90] Rats know the ways of rats

91] Marriage is a lottery

92] Past cure, past care

93] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

94] Death alone can kill hope

95] Every groom is a king at home

96] Repentance is a bitter physic

97] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

98] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

99] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

100] Never make threats you cannot carry out.