Famous Proverbs

1] Mercy surpasses justice

2] He gives twice who gives quickly

3] Good broth may be made in an old pot

4] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

5] Tomorrow is another day

6] Better unborn than untaught

7] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

8] There is many a fair thing full false

9] In doing we learn.

10] One can’t help many, but many can help one

11] Many a true word is spoken in jest

12] Penny wise, pound foolish

13] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

14] Virtue is its own reward

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

16] No tie can oblige the perfidious

17] No good building without a good foundation.

18] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

19] The highest tree has the greatest fall

20] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

21] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

22] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

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

24] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

25] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

26] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

27] The fairest silk is soonest stained

28] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

29] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

30] Every advantage has its disadvantage

31] Wrong has no warrant

32] Gold will not buy everything

33] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

34] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

35] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

36] A good servant must have good wages

37] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

38] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

39] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

40] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

41] Better belly burst than good meat lost

42] Kingdoms divided soon fall

43] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

44] One good turn deserves another

45] Lookers-on see more than players

46] What is a workman without his tools?

47] A hungry man is angry man

48] The great would have none great, and the little all little

49] A word is enough to the wise

50] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

51] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

52] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

53] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

54] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

55] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

56] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

57] He who wills the end, Wills the means

58] Praise no man till he is dead.

59] Spare the rod and spoil the child

60] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

61] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

62] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

63] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

64] Better the foot slip than the tongue

65] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

66] Love is without reason

67] When you do not know what to do – wait.

68] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

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

70] The money you refuse will never do you good

71] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

72] Desires are nourished by delays

73] Where there is whispering there is lying

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

75] Don’t meet trouble half-way

76] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

77] While there is life, there is hope

78] Old cattle breed not

79] Money is power

80] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

81] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

82] Gold will not buy everything

83] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

84] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

85] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

86] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

87] Water is the king of food

88] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

89] In peace, prepare for war

90] Nature abhors a vacuum

91] All’s fair in love and war

92] Like mistress, like maid

93] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

94] The best fish swim near the bottom

95] A cat has nine lives

96] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

97] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

98] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

99] You cannot unscramble eggs

100] A man without a wife is but half a man