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Famous Proverbs

1] Through obedience learn to command.
2] What is the mother of industry
3] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past
4] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing
5] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
6] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him
7] Gifts blind the eyes.
8] God never sends mouths but he sent meat
9] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six
10] Virtue is its own reward
11] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
12] Desperate diseases need desperate cures
13] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle
14] Extremity of right is wrong
15] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle
16] The poor suffer all the wrong
17] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.
18] A man must plough with such oxen as he has
19] A man in debt is caught in a net
20] Wrong has no warrant
21] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard
22] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless
23] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher
24] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance
25] As you sow, so shall you reap
26] Covetousness is the root of all evil
27] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows
28] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.
29] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away
30] Little things please little minds
31] Every shoe fits not every foot
32] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city
33] He who begins many things, finishes but few
34] Weak things united become strong
35] No honest man ever repented his honesty
36] Children speak only words they have heard.
37] You win some, you lose some
38] Adventures are to be adventurous
39] Live and let live
40] Everyone puts his fault on the times.
41] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice
42] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.
43] Christmas comes but once a year
44] The last straw breaks the camel’s back
45] No pains, no gains
46] Two heads are better than one
47] Tempt not a desperate man
48] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing
49] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic
50] Children and fools must not play with edged tools
51] Come with the wind, got with the water
52] Money refused loses its brightness
53] There’s a time and place for everything
54] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor
55] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good
56] An Englishman’s home is his castle
57] Haste is of (or from) the devil
58] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel
59] Make the best of a bad job
60] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you
61] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures
62] Envy eats nothing but it own heart
63] Pat any man and dust will fly
64] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers
65] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse
66] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.
67] An ill tongue may do much
68] It is not work that kills but worry
69] First creep, then walk
70] Life is short and time is swift
71] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating
72] One is never too old to learn
73] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today
74] The submitting to one wrong brings on another
75] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
76] Fire is a good servant a bad master
77] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them
78] Expectation is better than realisation
79] So many countries, so many customs
80] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)
81] Wine is the best broom for trouble
82] Go while the going is good
83] Better ask the way than go astray
84] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps
85] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it
86] The unexpected always happens.
87] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone
88] Beauty is but skin-deep
89] Counsel must be followed, not praised.
90] Everything new is fine
91] It is not work that kills but worry
92] Lovers are madmen
93] A merchant that gains not, loses
94] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
95] A small pepper is hotter than a large one
96] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life
97] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken
98] He that can stay. Obtains
99] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today
100] A little impatience will spoil great plans



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