Famous Proverbs

1] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

2] Honesty is the best policy

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

4] At open doors, dogs come in

5] Extremes meet

6] Revenge never repairs an injury

7] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

8] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

9] Man cannot live by bread alone

10] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

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

12] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

13] It is well to live that one may learn

14] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

15] Procrastination is the thief of time

16] Failure teaches success

17] Beauty draws more than oxen

18] Birds once snared fear all bushes

19] Wash your dirty linen at home

20] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

21] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

22] God makes the back for the burden

23] Better a bare foot than none

24] Moderation in all things

25] An old man is a bed full of bones

26] Appetite comes with eating

27] Bad luck often brings good luck

28] It is more pain to do nothing than something

29] Everything is good in its season

30] Every man praises his own wares

31] First thrive then wive

32] It is all in the day’s work

33] So many men, so many opinions

34] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

35] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

36] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

37] A learned man has always riches in himself

38] In haste is error

39] The greatest step is that out of doors

40] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

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

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

43] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

44] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

45] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

46] He is an ill husband who is not missed

47] Few words are best

48] Virtue is its own reward

49] No cross, no crown

50] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

51] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

52] You cannot have it both ways

53] God is a sure paymaster

54] Kingdoms divided soon fall

55] Gifts blind the eyes.

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

57] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

58] None so deaf as those that will not hear

59] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

60] Money is the sinews of war

61] One potter envies another

62] A jack of all traders is master of none

63] All covet all lose.

64] Love is never without jealousy

65] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

66] What is worth doing is worth doing well

67] What everybody says must be true

68] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

69] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

70] In my own house, I am king

71] The receiver is as bad as the thief

72] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

73] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

74] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

75] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

76] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

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

78] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

79] The biter is sometimes bit

80] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

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

82] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

83] Trust is the mother of deceit

84] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

85] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

86] Morning dreams come true

87] Forecast is better than work-hard

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

89] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

90] Where there is peace, God is

91] Hear twice before you speak once

92] Plain dealing is a jewel

93] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

94] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

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

96] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

97] No man limps because another is hurt

98] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

99] Live and Learn

100] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones