Famous Proverbs

1] Change of pasture makes fat calves

2] Dreams are lies

3] The tide must be taken when it comes

4] Wise men do not argue with idiots

5] Covetousness brings nothing home

6] One cannot love and be wise

7] A merchant that gains not, loses

8] Circumstances alter cases

9] A miss is as good as a mile

10] One lie makes many

11] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

12] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

13] If anything can go wrong, it will

14] A good beginning is half the battle.

15] No man is his craft’s master the first day

16] An army marches on its stomach

17] Judge not, that ye be not judged

18] Health without money is half an ague

19] He would command must serve

20] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

21] The best things are hard to come by.

22] Good is good but better carries it

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

24] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

25] Put out your tubs when it is raining

26] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

27] A strong town is not won in an hour

28] What is worth doing is worth doing well

29] One barber shaves another gratis

30] Mirth without measure is madness

31] An Englishman’s home is his castle

32] Double charge will rive a cannon

33] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

34] It is too late to husband when all is spent

35] Wise men silent, fools talk

36] Don’t meet trouble half-way

37] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

38] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

39] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

40] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

41] The envious man shall never want woe

42] Great talkers are never great doers

43] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

44] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

45] Repentance comes too late

46] There is nothing that costs less than civility

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

48] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

49] All heiresses are beautiful.

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

51] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

52] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

53] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

54] His bark is worse than his bite

55] Empty vessels make the most sound

56] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

57] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

58] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

59] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

60] Stolen sweets are sweeter

61] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

62] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

63] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

64] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

65] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

66] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

67] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

68] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

69] Judge not of men and things at first sight

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

71] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

72] Good luck beats early rising

73] No news is good news

74] Everything is good in its season

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

76] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

77] First impressions are half the battle

78] Wise men are caught in wiles

79] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

80] It costs more to do ill than to do well

81] One thief will not rob another

82] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

83] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

84] Money is the only monarch

85] Little by little and bit by bit.

86] Great actions speak minds

87] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

88] Where there is whispering there is lying

89] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

90] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

91] Prospect is often better than possession

92] Do as you would be done by

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

94] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

95] Better sit still than rise and fall

96] A parrot will only say what it is taught

97] No choice amongst stinking fish

98] Birds once snared fear all bushes

99] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

100] Might knows no right