Famous Proverbs

1] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

2] The tide must be taken when it comes

3] Haste is of (or from) the devil

4] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

5] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

6] Misery loves company.

7] A light purse makes a heavy heart

8] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

9] No man is infallible

10] He that ventures not fails not.

11] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

12] Every little helps

13] Hitch your wagon to a star

14] Better belly burst than good meat lost

15] Words cut more than swords

16] Between two stools you fall to the ground

17] Affection blinds reason

18] A good wife is a good prize

19] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

20] Beauty is only skin deep

21] Call no man happy till he is dead

22] He who teaches learns

23] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

24] Standing pools gather fifth

25] Boys will be boys

26] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

27] The best things come in small packages

28] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

29] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

30] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

31] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

32] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

33] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

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

35] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

36] Virtue carries a lean purse

37] Rust wastes more than use

38] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

39] Experience is good if not bought too dear

40] The first step is the hardest

41] Learn not and know not

42] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

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

44] An old dog barks not in vain

45] Good counsel never comes amiss

46] What may be done at any time is done at no time

47] In indecision itself, grief is present.

48] No one betrays himself by silence

49] Better never begin than never make an end

50] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

51] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

52] Nothing seek, nothing find

53] It’s dogged that does it

54] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

55] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

56] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

57] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

58] Lose a leg rather than a life

59] Save your breath to cool the porridge

60] Circumstances alter cases

61] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

62] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

63] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

64] They can do least two boast loudest

65] For a web begun, God sends the thread

66] What cannot gold do?

67] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

68] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

69] Many hands make light work

70] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

71] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

72] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

73] Distance lends enchantment to the view

74] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

75] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

76] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

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

78] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

79] The world is full of fools

80] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

81] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

82] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

83] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

84] You never know what you can do till you try

85] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

86] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

87] What the king wills, that the law wills

88] You are never too old to learn

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

90] Lovers are madmen

91] Master easy, servant slack

92] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

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

94] Custom makes all things easy

95] It takes all sorts to make a world

96] Honesty is the best policy

97] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

98] Great gain makes easy work

99] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

100] Revenge never repairs an injury