Famous Proverbs

1] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

2] None but the brave deserves the fair

3] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

4] Good counsel never comes amiss

5] There is nothing permanent except change

6] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

7] A man’s wealth is his enemy

8] All is vanity.

9] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

10] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

11] Money is the only monarch

12] He that can stay. Obtains

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

14] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

15] The Pen is mightier than the sword

16] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

17] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

18] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

19] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

20] Wrong never comes right

21] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

22] The bull must be taken by the horns

23] To err is human

24] Dumb dogs are dangerous

25] He who excuses himself accuses himself

26] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

27] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

28] Go while the going is good

29] Nothing is so certain as death

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

31] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

32] They can do least two boast loudest

33] Loyalty is worth more than money

34] Virtue is its own reward

35] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

36] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

37] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

38] Wrong has no warrant

39] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

40] Innocence is no protection

41] Take away fuel, take away flame

42] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

43] Experience is the best teacher

44] The fairest flowers soonest fade

45] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

46] Better never begin than never make an end

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

48] Those near the temple deride the gods

49] Every flow must have its ebb

50] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

51] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

52] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

53] The thread breaks where it is weakest

54] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

55] Good ware makes quick market

56] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

57] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

58] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

59] You cannot make a crab walk straight

60] Hunger is the best sauce

61] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

62] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

63] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

64] Thrift is a great revenue

65] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

66] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

67] To err is human; to forgive, divine

68] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

69] The slowest barker is the surest biter

70] The poor suffer all the wrong

71] Ale will make a cat speak

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

73] Little wealth, little care

74] The receiver is as bad as the thief

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

76] He that has no money needs no purse

77] He who hesitates is lost

78] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

79] He that ventures not fails not.

80] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

81] Spread the table, and contention will cease

82] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

83] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

84] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

85] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

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

87] Do unto others as they should do unto you

88] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

89] Don’t meet trouble half-way

90] All is vanity.

91] A word to the wise is enough

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

93] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

94] He who pays the piper calls the tune

95] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

96] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

97] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

98] Step by step the ladder is ascended

99] Long absent, soon forgotten

100] Every man is the architect of his own fortune