Famous Proverbs

1] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

2] One thief will not rob another

3] Hitch your wagon to a star

4] He that has no money needs no purse

5] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

6] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

7] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

8] Liars should have good memories

9] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

10] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

11] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

12] Silence is golden

13] The best wine comes from an old vessel

14] When wine sinks, words swim

15] The devil looks after his own

16] A jack of all traders is master of none

17] Every may be has a may not be

18] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

19] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

20] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

21] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

22] Bind the sack before it be full

23] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

24] Expectation is better than realisation

25] Plain dealing is a jewel

26] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

27] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

28] Appetite comes with eating

29] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

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

31] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

32] Honesty is ill to thrive by

33] Every man has his price

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

35] Stolen goods never thrive

36] He that repairs not a part, builds all

37] Poverty parts friendship

38] A healthy man is a successful man

39] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

40] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

41] Kingdoms divided soon fall

42] Life is short and time is swift

43] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

44] The early man ever borrows from the late man

45] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

46] Sickness shows us what we are

47] No road is long with good company

48] Every path has a puddle

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

50] None can guess the jewel by the casket

51] Learning is the eye of the mind

52] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

53] It is ill striving against the stream

54] Money isn’t everything

55] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

56] Hunger is the teacher of many

57] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

58] To err is human; to forgive, divine

59] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

60] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

61] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

62] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

63] Revenge is sweet

64] A crust is better than no bread.

65] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

66] Every dog has his day

67] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

68] An old man is a bed full of bones

69] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

70] The best things in life are free

71] A hedge between keeps friendship green

72] Bear with evil and expect good

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

74] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

75] No convenience without its inconvenience

76] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

77] The child is father of the man

78] A fool believes everything

79] History repeats itself

80] Shrouds have no pockets

81] Better bend than break

82] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

83] If today will not, tomorrow may

84] A good friend is my nearest relation

85] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

86] He travels the fastest who travels alone

87] Plain dealing is best

88] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

89] There is a great difference between words and deeds

90] Change of pasture makes fat calves

91] You cannot unscramble eggs

92] An obedient wife commands her husband

93] One foot is better than two crutches

94] Even Homer sometimes nods

95] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

96] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

97] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

98] Full of courtesy, full of craft

99] Love your friend with his fault

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