Famous Proverbs

1] Covetousness brings nothing home

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

3] Time has wings

4] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

5] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

6] What cannot gold do?

7] Adam’s ale is the best brew

8] Error cannot be defended but by error

9] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

10] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

11] Manners and money make a gentleman

12] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

13] Work expands so as to fill the time available

14] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

15] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

16] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

17] He that eats well should do his duty well

18] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

19] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

20] Garbage in, garbage out

21] Great hopes make great men

22] The deed comes back upon the doer.

23] A bully is always a coward

24] Novelty always appears handsome

25] Silence is also speech

26] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

27] What the king wills, that the law wills

28] You cannot have it both ways

29] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

30] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

31] None so deaf as those that will not hear

32] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

33] Don’t meet trouble half-way

34] All lay loads on a willing horse

35] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

36] Second thoughts are best

37] Poverty parts friendship

38] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

39] Honesty is ill to thrive by

40] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

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

42] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

43] Don’t play with fire

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

45] Even a worm will turn

46] There is death in the pot.

47] It is good fishing in troubled waters

48] Full of courtesy, full of craft

49] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

50] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

51] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

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

53] From small beginnings come great things

54] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

55] Friends agree best at a distance

56] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

57] He who touches pitch will be defiled

58] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

59] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

60] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

61] Laws were made to be broke

62] Enough is as good as a feast

63] As soon as there is life there is danger

64] Idleness is the root of all evil

65] Friends agree best at a distance

66] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

67] Better at home than a mile from it

68] Good fame is better than a good face

69] Stolen goods never thrive

70] Empty vessels make the most sound

71] No garden without its weeds.

72] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

73] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

74] Through obedience learn to command.

75] Men are not angles

76] Grasp all, lose all

77] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

78] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

79] The devil lurks behind the cross

80] A man of courage never wants weapons

81] Like father, like son

82] Never too late to learn

83] One man’s means another man’s poison

84] What has been, may be

85] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

86] Blue are the far away hills

87] Fine feathers make fine birds.

88] The goat must browse where she is tied

89] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

90] The dog that fetches, will carry.

91] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

92] Gossiping and lying go together

93] One man sows and another reaps

94] There are spots even in the sun

95] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

96] The leopard cannot change its spots

97] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

98] The bull must be taken by the horns

99] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

100] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened