Famous Proverbs

1] Too much hope deceives

2] Will is no skill

3] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

4] The game is not worth the candle

5] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

6] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

7] No hair so small but has his shadow

8] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

9] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

10] The wisest of the wise may err.

11] Union is strength.

12] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

13] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

14] He that brings good news, knocks hard

15] Every medal has two sides

16] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

17] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

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

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

20] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

21] Be careful to whom you give

22] The more laws, the more offenders

23] There is no time like the present

24] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

25] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

26] Light grows the burden which is well borne

27] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

28] Self do, self have

29] One must howl with the wolves

30] Love is sweet torment

31] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

32] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

33] Possibilities are infinite

34] In the end, things will mend

35] Affection blinds reason

36] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

37] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

38] Wrong has no warrant

39] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

40] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

41] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

42] When in doubt, do nothing

43] Exchange is no robbery

44] Seeing is believing

45] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

46] Don’t play with edged tools

47] Ill gotten, ill spent

48] He who demands does not command

49] A fault confessed is half redressed

50] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

51] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

52] Liars should have good memories

53] The longest day must have an end

54] Slow help is no help

55] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

56] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

57] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

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

59] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

60] A good heart cannot lie.

61] Christmas comes but once a year

62] Better ask the way than go astray

63] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

64] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

65] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

66] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

67] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

68] Self-praise is no recommendation

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

70] New lords, new laws

71] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

72] Revenge is sweet

73] A short cut is often a wrong cut

74] It is no use crying over spilt milk

75] The best of men are but men at best.

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

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

78] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

79] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

80] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

81] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

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

83] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

84] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

85] Let like mate with like

86] Poverty is the mother of crime

87] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

88] What cannot gold do?

89] The envious man shall never want woe

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

91] Do as say, not as I do

92] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

93] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

94] Busiest men find the most time

95] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

96] When wine sinks, words swim

97] A good garden may have some ill weeds

98] All is vanity.

99] Like question, like answer.

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