Famous Proverbs

1] The best of friends must part

2] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

3] You cannot have it both ways

4] Hunger is the teacher of many

5] Distance lends enchantment to the view

6] Goodness is better than beauty

7] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

8] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

9] A penny saved is a penny gained

10] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

11] Prevention is better than cure

12] Spend and be free, but make no waste

13] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

14] Experience is the mother of wisdom

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

16] Death is the grand leveler

17] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

18] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

19] Better ask the way than go astray

20] Example is better than precept

21] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

22] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

23] The axe falls on a straight tree first

24] Covetousness brings nothing home

25] Better to be safe than sorry.

26] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

27] Children and fools have merry lives

28] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

29] Put out your tubs when it is raining

30] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

31] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

32] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

33] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

34] Wrong has no warrant

35] A good garden may have some ill weeds

36] Dead men don’t bite

37] The longest night will have an end

38] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

39] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

40] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

41] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

42] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

43] Exchange is no robbery

44] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

45] He conquers who endures

46] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

47] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

48] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

49] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

50] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

51] Trust not the many-minded populace

52] Things past cannot be recalled

53] A prophet is without honour in his own country

54] Never too late to late to repent

55] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

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

57] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

58] A good dog deserves a good bone

59] Share and share alike

60] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

61] His own ingenuity pricks him.

62] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

63] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

64] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

65] He who comes first, grinds first.

66] Ready money is a ready remedy

67] An Englishman’s home is his castle

68] Every oak has been an acorn

69] Marriage makes or mars a man

70] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

71] New things are fair

72] A soft answer turns away wrath

73] The king can do no wrong

74] Hungry bellies have no ears

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

76] They brag most who can do least

77] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

78] A little help is worth a deal of pity

79] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

80] Ready money is a ready remedy

81] Of evil manners, spring good laws

82] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

83] Intimacy lessens fame

84] Adam’s ale is the best brew

85] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

86] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

87] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

88] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

89] Everything would fain live

90] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

91] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

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

93] Virtue is its own reward

94] Birds of a feather flock together

95] Once a knave, always a knave

96] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

97] He knows most who speaks least

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

99] A little help is worth a deal of pity

100] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets