Famous Proverbs

1] Faint heart never won fair lady

2] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

3] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

4] Every medal has its reverse

5] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

6] Cleanliness is next to godliness

7] Far fowls have fair feather

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

9] Work won’t kill but worry will.

10] No man fears what he has seen grow

11] The end justifies the means

12] So many men, so many opinions

13] The road to hell is paved with good action

14] Discretion is the better part of valour

15] Comparisons are odious

16] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

17] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

18] Small is beautiful

19] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

20] Ready money is ready medicine

21] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

22] Words and feathers the wind carries away

23] Do right and fear no man

24] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

25] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

26] He who leaps high must take a long run

27] All glory comes from daring to begin

28] The more wicked, the more lucky

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

30] Tigers and deer do not over.

31] The young will sow their wild oats

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

33] Good clothes open all doors

34] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

35] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

36] It is too late to husband when all is spent

37] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

38] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

39] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

40] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

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

42] An evil life is a kind of death.

43] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

44] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

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

46] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

47] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

48] A fool may give a wise man counsel

49] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

50] Ambition loses many a man

51] Novelty always appears handsome

52] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

53] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

54] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

55] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

56] Abundance, like want, ruins many

57] Her that is down need fear no fall

58] The tongue stings

59] Manners and money make a gentleman

60] New brooms sweep clean

61] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

62] Business is business

63] Friends are thieves of time

64] First impressions are half the battle

65] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

66] He that speaks not, God hears not

67] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

68] Sickness soaks the purse

69] All cats are grey in the dark

70] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

71] The cowl does not make the monk.

72] In doing we learn.

73] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

74] He who last, laughs longest.

75] Men do more things through habit than reason

76] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

77] There is truth in wine

78] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

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

80] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

81] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

82] Men are blind in their own cause

83] Use makes mastery

84] A good conscience is a constant feast

85] A wicked man is his own hell

86] Keep something for a rainy day

87] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

88] An old ox makes a straight furrow

89] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

90] He who serves is not free

91] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

92] Innocence is no protection

93] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

94] No convenience without its inconvenience

95] A man in debt is caught in a net

96] Excessive happiness produces pain

97] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

98] You cannot make a crab walk straight

99] It is ill jesting with edged tools

100] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.