Famous Proverbs

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

2] A man can do no more than he can

3] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

4] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

5] Health without money is half an ague

6] The end crowns the work.

7] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

8] Gossiping and lying go together

9] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

10] A constant guest is never welcome

11] Do as you would be done by

12] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

13] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

14] All’s fair in love and war

15] Lucky men need no counsel

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

17] The best things in life are free

18] No honest man ever repented his honesty

19] Better an apple given than eaten

20] Everything new is fine

21] Nature is conquered by obeying her

22] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

23] A door must be either shut or open

24] He that knows little often repeats it

25] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

26] Pleasant hours fly past

27] Every path has a puddle

28] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

29] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

30] Go while the going is good

31] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

32] Friendship should not be all on one

33] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

34] It is easier to pull down than to build

35] Art improves Nature

36] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

37] All are not saints that go to church

38] A fool may give a wise man counsel

39] Wife and Children are bills of charges

40] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

41] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

42] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

43] What cannot gold do?

44] He that has an ill name is half hanged

45] None so busy as those who do nothing.

46] Love and business teach eloquence

47] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

48] A strong town is not won in an hour

49] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

50] A penny saved is a penny gained

51] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

52] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

53] To err is human; to forgive, divine

54] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

55] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

56] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

57] Virtue is the only true nobility

58] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

59] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

60] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

61] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

62] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

63] It takes two to make a quarrel

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

65] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

66] It’s dogged that does it

67] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

68] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

69] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

70] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

71] Four eyes see more than two

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

73] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

74] One thief will not rob another

75] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

76] Penny and penny laid up will be many

77] Do it now

78] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

79] Praises fill not the belly

80] Dying men speak true

81] The result justifies the deed

82] Fear of death is worse than death itself

83] Never too late to learn

84] Love knows hidden paths

85] Make the best of a bad bargain

86] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

87] Covetousness brings nothing home

88] Every advantage has its disadvantage

89] Riches along make no men happy

90] Like question, like answer.

91] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

92] Dead men tell no tales

93] Do unto others as they should do unto you

94] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

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

96] A good servant must have good wages

97] None so blind as those who will not see

98] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

99] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

100] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good