Famous Proverbs

1] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

2] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

3] Help a lame dog over a stile

4] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

5] Half a word is enough for a wise man

6] He that brings good news, knocks hard

7] Will is the cause of woe

8] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

9] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

10] A beggar can never be bankrupt

11] Fine feathers make fine birds.

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

13] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

14] Big words seldom go with good deeds

15] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

16] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

17] Everything must have a beginning

18] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

19] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

20] He that lends, gives

21] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

22] Charity excuseth not cheating.

23] Fool’s haste is no speed

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

25] A rolling stone gathers no moss

26] Wise men propose, and fools determine

27] Adam’s ale is the best brew

28] Intimacy lessens fame

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

30] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

31] Sooner begun, sooner done

32] He that praises himself, spatters himself

33] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

34] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

35] Slow help is no help

36] Good clothes open all doors

37] The hand that gives, gathers

38] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

39] Better learn late than never

40] Example is the greatest of all seducers

41] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

42] Dying men speak true

43] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

44] Like breeds like

45] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

46] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

47] A true friend is forever a friend

48] Small is beautiful

49] Honest is the best policy

50] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

51] All glory comes from daring to begin

52] Bear with evil and expect good

53] The absent saint gets no candle

54] Success has many friends

55] He that can stay. Obtains

56] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

57] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

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

59] Brevity is the soul of wit

60] Soft fire makes sweet malt

61] Soft fire makes sweet malt

62] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

63] Old vessels must leak

64] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

65] Saying is one thing, and doing another

66] As you sow, so shall you reap

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

68] Once a use and ever a custom

69] Look at the bright side

70] An obedient wife commands her husband

71] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

72] A man in debt is caught in a net

73] Call a spade a spade

74] Health is not value till sickness comes

75] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

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

77] Great barkers are no biters

78] He who comes late must eat what is left

79] Of a new prince, new bondage

80] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

81] There’s no great loss without some gain

82] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

83] The longest day must have an end

84] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

85] What’s done cannot be undone

86] Man proposes, God disposes

87] He that has good money, gives few alms

88] Easier said than done

89] Everyone to his taste

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

91] Exchange is no robbery

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

93] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

94] Extremes meet

95] In the end, things will mend

96] First impressions are most lasting

97] Handsome is as handsome does

98] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

99] There is no garden without its weeds

100] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours