Famous Proverbs

1] He that has an ill name is half hanged

2] God’s lambs will play.

3] Sweet are the uses of adversity

4] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

5] Respect is greater from a distance

6] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

7] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

8] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

9] Through obedience learn to command.

10] No man so good but another may be as good as he

11] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

12] Give and spend, and God will send

13] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

14] The fairest flowers soonest fade

15] He that lives ill, fear follows him

16] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

17] Two wrongs do not make a right

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

19] Every shoe fits not every foot

20] The best things come in small packages

21] Wisdom is better than strength

22] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

23] Repentance is a bitter physic

24] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

25] Much would have more

26] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

27] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

28] The more laws, the more offenders

29] An egg thief will become a camel thief

30] Where there is peace, there is blessing

31] Grief pent up will break the heart

32] Wrong has no warrant

33] No road is long with good company

34] Never grieve for what you cannot help

35] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

36] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

37] A good conscience is a sure card

38] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

39] To teach is to learn twice over

40] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

41] The weeds overgrow the corn.

42] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

43] Bare walls make giddy housewives

44] Cheats never prosper

45] Where there’s a will there’s a way

46] The weakest goes to the wall

47] All is vanity.

48] One good turn deserves another

49] All that glitters is not gold

50] All’s fair in love and war

51] Too many cooks spoil the broth

52] Give the devil his due

53] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

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

55] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

56] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

57] The best wine comes from an old vessel

58] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

59] A good drink makes the old young

60] A knave and a fool never take thought

61] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

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

63] Every bean has its black

64] A true friend is forever a friend

65] Fair exchange is no robbery

66] The righteous man sins before an open chest

67] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

68] Whatever man has done, man can do

69] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

70] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

71] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

72] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

73] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

74] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

75] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

76] Death alone can kill hope

77] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

78] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

79] No news is good news

80] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

81] Few words are best

82] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

83] All roads lead to Rome

84] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

85] Set a thief to catch a thief

86] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

87] Wine unveils the words of the heart

88] Make haste slowly

89] Do as the friar says, not as he does

90] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

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

92] All good things must come to an end

93] A crust is better than no bread.

94] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

95] Far fowls have fair feather

96] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

97] They also serve who only stand and wait

98] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

99] Men make houses, women make homes

100] Ill gotten, ill spent