Famous Proverbs

1] Long absent, soon forgotten

2] Do as you would be done by

3] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

4] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

5] The mob has many heads but no brains

6] Take things as you find them

7] Too far east is west

8] Virtue carries a lean purse

9] Company in misery makes it light

10] There is no accounting for tastes

11] He who envies admits his inferiority

12] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

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

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

15] One must be a servant before one can be a master

16] Wise men silent, fools talk

17] Every dog is valiant at his won door

18] East or west, home is best

19] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

20] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

21] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

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

23] Think on the end before you begin

24] Keep some till further more come

25] Where there is peace, God is

26] A constant guest is never welcome

27] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

28] Wisdom is better than strength

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

30] From word to deed is a great space

31] They say so’ is half a lie

32] The devil lurks behind the cross

33] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

34] He would command must serve

35] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

36] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

37] There is nothing like being on the safe side

38] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

39] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

40] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

41] A straight stick is crooked in water

42] Love and business teach eloquence

43] A jack of all traders is master of none

44] The fox may grow grey, but never good

45] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

46] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

47] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

48] Call no man happy till he is dead

49] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

50] Patience is the remedy of the world

51] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

52] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

53] As you brew, so shall you drink.

54] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

55] Never judge from appearances

56] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

57] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

58] Habit is second nature

59] Kingdoms divided soon fall

60] Knowledge is power

61] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

62] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

63] All things are easy, that are done willingly

64] Dreams are lies

65] Danger makes men devout

66] Gold is tried in the fire

67] Every man must carry his own cross

68] Fire is a good servant a bad master

69] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

70] The last drop makes the cup run over

71] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

72] 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

73] No man is indispensable

74] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

75] Precept begins, examples accomplish

76] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

77] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

78] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

79] Once a knave, always a knave

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

81] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

82] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

83] A hungry man smells meat afar off

84] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

85] United we stand, divided we fall

86] Fear of death is worse than death itself

87] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

88] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

89] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

90] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

91] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

92] He that has no shame has no conscience

93] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

94] Make the best of a bad job

95] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

96] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

97] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

98] Faint heart never won fair lady

99] Love delights in praise

100] One must be a servant before one can be a master