Famous Proverbs

1] All things are difficult before they are easy

2] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

3] They are rich who have true friends

4] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

5] Safety lies in the middle course

6] Money is the sinew of affairs

7] The resolved mind has no cares

8] Every beginning is hard

9] You are never too old to learn

10] The absent saint gets no candle

11] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

12] Success makes a fool seem wise.

13] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

14] A door must be either shut or open

15] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

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

17] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

18] First impressions are most lasting

19] Speech is silver, silence is golden

20] The best of friends must part

21] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

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

23] Better be alone than in bad company

24] A good marksman may miss

25] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

26] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

27] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

28] Laugh and grow fat

29] The company makes the feast

30] Never hit a man when he’s down

31] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

32] Discontent is the first step in progress

33] Work won’t kill but worry will.

34] A good drink makes the old young

35] Praise no man till he is dead.

36] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

37] Little things are pretty

38] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

39] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

40] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

41] One father is more than a hundred school masters

42] A good conscience is a constant feast

43] All is vanity.

44] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

45] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

46] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

47] The leopard cannot change its spots

48] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

49] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

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

51] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

52] Hope often deludes the foolish man

53] You cannot serve God and Mammon

54] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

55] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

56] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

57] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

58] Safety lies in the middle course

59] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

60] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

61] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

62] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

63] Take heed is a fair thing

64] Where there is peace, God is

65] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

66] The course of true love never did run smooth

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

68] It is good fishing in troubled waters

69] A woman’s work is never done

70] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

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

72] A fool always rushes to the fore.

73] Prevention is better than cure

74] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

75] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

76] The world is full of fools

77] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

78] A strong town is not won in an hour

79] Strike while the iron is hot

80] To err is human

81] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

82] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

83] Either mend or end

84] He is rich that has few wants

85] Tigers and deer do not over.

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

87] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

88] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

89] Children and fools cannot lie.

90] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

91] There is nothing new under the sun

92] Idleness is the root of all evil

93] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

94] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

95] Waste not, want not

96] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

97] All glory comes from daring to begin

98] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

99] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

100] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost