Famous Proverbs

1] It is good fishing in troubled waters

2] Everyone to his taste

3] Intimacy lessens fame

4] Least said, soonest mended

5] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

6] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

7] When the word is out it belongs to another

8] One reason is as good as fifty

9] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

10] Bread is the staff of life.

11] Suffering does not manifest itself

12] Trust is the mother of deceit

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

14] The best things come in small packages

15] Not even Hercules could contend against two

16] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

17] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

18] Health without money is half an ague

19] Small is the seed of every greatness

20] Everything is good in its season

21] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

22] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

23] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

24] Long absent, soon forgotten

25] The resolved mind has no cares

26] After a storm comes a calm

27] No like is the same.

28] Repentance comes too late

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

30] Nothing is given so freely as advice

31] Few words are best

32] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

33] There’s a time and place for everything

34] Business is business

35] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

36] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

37] Well done is better than well said

38] Open confession is good for the soul

39] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

40] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

41] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

42] Work won’t kill but worry will.

43] Through obedience learn to command.

44] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

45] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

46] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

47] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

48] Lovers are madmen

49] Desire beautifies what is ugly

50] It is misery enough to have once been happy

51] No man fears what he has seen grow

52] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

53] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

54] Nature does nothing in vain

55] By his deeds we know a man

56] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

57] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

58] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

59] As you bake, so shall you eat.

60] Adventures are to be adventurous

61] Example is the greatest of all seducers

62] Words and feathers the wind carries away

63] First think, and then speak

64] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

65] The faulty stands on his guard

66] Harp not for ever on the same string

67] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

68] A little too late, is much too late

69] Opportunity makes the thief

70] Conscience does make cowards of us all

71] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

72] He who owes is in all the wrong

73] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

74] Novelty always appears handsome

75] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

76] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

77] Bad luck often brings good luck

78] Silence gives (or means) consent

79] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

80] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

81] Small is beautiful

82] All doors open to courtesy

83] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

84] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

85] Acorns were good till bread was found

86] Misfortune does not always come to injure

87] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

88] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

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

90] A short cut is often a wrong cut

91] There are more men threatened than stricken

92] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

93] Bad luck often brings good luck

94] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

95] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

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

97] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

98] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

99] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

100] Don’t kick against the pricks