Famous Proverbs

1] Love cannot be compelled

2] It is not every question that deserves an answer

3] As you brew, so shall you drink.

4] Might knows no right

5] The best things come in small packages

6] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

7] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

8] Enough is enough

9] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

10] Great barkers are no biters

11] Of a new prince, new bondage

12] Liars should have good memories

13] Praise no man till he is dead.

14] A good wife is a good prize

15] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

16] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

17] First impressions are the most lasting

18] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

19] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

20] Divine grace was never slow

21] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

22] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

23] Health is better than wealth

24] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

25] Speech is silver, silence is golden

26] First try and then trust

27] A stitch in time saves nine

28] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

29] Home is home though it be never so homely

30] What can’t be cured must be endured

31] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

32] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

33] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

34] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

35] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

36] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

37] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

38] Health is not value till sickness comes

39] Better say noting than no to the purpose

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

41] Love me, love my dog

42] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

43] He that has a wife, has strife

44] Judge not, that ye be not judged

45] Dying is as natural as living

46] Wise men propose, and fools determine

47] Stolen goods never thrive

48] A watched pot never boils

49] Plain dealing is best

50] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

51] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

52] Little things are pretty

53] A learned man has always riches in himself

54] No cross, no crown

55] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

56] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

57] The labour we delight in physics pain

58] Let not your tongue run at rover

59] Truth conquers all things

60] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

61] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

62] Men are blind in their own cause

63] He that speaks not, God hears not

64] Better to ask the way than go astray.

65] Good is good but better carries it

66] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

67] Slow and steady wins the race

68] Anything will fit a naked man.

69] There is truth in wine

70] Better the last smile than the first laugh

71] Every oak has been an acorn

72] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

73] Every dog has his day

74] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

75] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

76] A good marksman may miss

77] Brevity is the soul of wit

78] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

79] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

80] A joke’s a very serious thing

81] All is vanity.

82] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

83] Children learn to creep ere they can go

84] The more you get, the more you want

85] Good counsel never comes amiss

86] Live and Learn

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

88] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

89] Between two stools you fall to the ground

90] Never grieve for what you cannot help

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

92] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

93] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

94] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

95] The course of true love never did run smooth

96] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

97] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

98] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

99] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

100] Beware of him who makes thee presents