Famous Proverbs

1] An army marches on its stomach

2] There is no fool like an old fool

3] Every medal has its reverse

4] Lookers-on see more than players

5] Divine grace was never slow

6] The pot calls the kettle black

7] Too much cunning undoes

8] Every dog is a lion at home

9] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

10] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

11] The falling drops hollow the stone

12] No garden without its weeds.

13] We don’t get something for nothing

14] Little wealth, little care

15] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

16] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

17] He laughs best who laughs last

18] There is death in the pot.

19] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

20] The great fish eat up the small

21] The worse luck now, the better another time

22] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

23] The child is father of the man

24] No remedy but patience

25] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

26] Experience is the best teacher

27] For a web begun, God sends the thread

28] Intimacy lessens fame

29] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

30] Do not kick against the pricks

31] Bad excuses are worse than none.

32] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

33] A hedge between keeps friendship green

34] Bare walls make giddy housewives

35] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

36] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

37] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

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

39] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

40] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

41] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

42] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

43] One today is worth two tomorrows

44] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

45] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

46] Empty vessels make the most sound

47] A good wife makes a good husband

48] Strike while the iron is hot

49] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

50] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

51] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

52] In haste is error

53] Clothes do not make the man

54] Life begins only in success

55] Pursuits become habits

56] Half a loaf is better than do bread

57] Like question, like answer.

58] Might overcome right.

59] Delays are not denials

60] A good dog deserves a good bone

61] They say so’ is half a lie

62] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

63] All are not saints that go to church

64] Discretion is the better part of valour

65] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

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

67] Beauty draws more than oxen

68] Numbers overcome the brave

69] Creditors have better memories than debtors

70] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

71] If you want peace, prepare for war

72] Every medal has its reverse

73] Handsome is as handsome does

74] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

75] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

76] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

77] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

78] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

79] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

80] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

81] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

82] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

83] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

84] A friend in need is a friend indeed

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

86] He that does most at once, does least

87] New lords, new laws

88] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

89] Water is the king of food

90] Muck and money go together

91] A good lawyer must be a great liar

92] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

93] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

94] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

95] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

96] Work smart; don’t work hard

97] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

98] Hunger is the teacher of many

99] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

100] What is new cannot be true