Famous Proverbs

1] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

2] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

3] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

4] Repentance is a bitter physic

5] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

6] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

7] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

8] Love cannot be compelled

9] Revenge never repairs an injury

10] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

11] A wicked man is his own hell

12] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

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

14] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

15] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

16] A wicked man is his own hell

17] He that obey cannot command

18] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

19] Talk much end err much

20] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

21] Every little helps

22] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

23] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

24] A constant guest is never welcome

25] One sheep follows another

26] Men are blind in their own cause

27] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

28] The good die young.

29] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

30] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

31] The owl thinks her own young fairest

32] The devil lurks behind the cross

33] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

34] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

35] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

36] He that will thrive must rise at five

37] Birds once snared fear all bushes

38] Valour delights in the test

39] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

40] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

41] When the cat is away, the mice will play

42] Never spur a willing horse

43] There is no rose without a thorn

44] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

45] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

46] The race is got by running

47] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

48] The devil looks after his own

49] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

50] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

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

52] There is no time like the present

53] Every Jack must have his Jill

54] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

55] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

56] Much science, much sorrow

57] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

58] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

59] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

60] You win some, you lose some

61] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

62] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

63] There is many a true word spoken in jest

64] One man’s loss is another’s gain

65] Every oak has been an acorn

66] A cat may look at a king

67] A living dog is better than a dead lion

68] Her that is down need fear no fall

69] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

70] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

71] When the cat is away, the mice will play

72] You may know by a handful the whole sack

73] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

74] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

75] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

76] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

77] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

78] Never judge from appearances

79] Dead men tell no tales

80] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

81] Friends are thieves of time

82] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

83] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

84] None so blind as those who will not see

85] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

86] Old vessels must leak

87] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

88] Hasty work, double work,

89] Enough is as good as a feast

90] Repentance comes too late

91] The great fish eat up the small

92] Keep some till further more come

93] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

94] He that lives ill, fear follows him

95] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

96] Still waters run deep

97] The garment worn determines how one is served

98] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

99] What costs little is little esteemed

100] Laws were made to be broke