Famous Proverbs

1] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

2] Love delights in praise

3] Man proposes, God disposes

4] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

5] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

6] None so busy as those who do nothing.

7] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

8] Expectation is better than realisation

9] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

10] Patient men with the day.

11] Every oak has been an acorn

12] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

13] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

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

15] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

16] A bad excuse is better than none at all

17] Better unborn than untaught

18] Don’t cry stinking fish

19] The voice is the best music

20] Least said, soonest mended

21] He that has plenty of goods will have more

22] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

23] Manners and money make a gentleman

24] Do not triumph before the victory

25] The lion had need of the mouse

26] No flying without wings.

27] Long absent, soon forgotten

28] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

29] We live by laws, not by examples

30] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

31] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

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

33] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

34] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

35] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

36] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

37] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

38] We don’t get something for nothing

39] One cannot put back the clock

40] He that repairs not a part, builds all

41] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

42] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

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

44] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

45] Do as you would be done by

46] Waste is not grandeur

47] There is none misfortune cannot reach

48] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

49] The absent saint gets no candle

50] All lay loads on a willing horse

51] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

52] Better late than never

53] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

54] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

55] Hear twice before you speak once

56] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

57] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

58] Handsome is as handsome does

59] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

60] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

61] That which proves too much proves nothing

62] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

63] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

64] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

65] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

66] He knows the water best who has waded through it

67] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

68] He thinks not well that thinks not again

69] When wine sinks, words swim

70] You may have too much of a good thing

71] He may find fault that cannot mend

72] In my own house, I am king

73] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

74] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

75] Take the tone of the company you are in

76] Train the child in the way he should go.

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

78] The fox may grow grey, but never good

79] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

80] Diligence is the mother of good luck

81] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

82] The ant had wings to her hurt

83] No man is indispensable

84] Hard words break no bones

85] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

86] Big words seldom go with good deeds

87] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

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

89] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

90] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

91] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

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

93] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

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

95] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

96] One man’s loss is another’s gain

97] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

98] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

99] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

100] Delay is the antidote of anger