Famous Proverbs

1] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

2] Slow help is no help

3] Be just before you are generous

4] Conscience does make cowards of us all

5] Make the best of a bad bargain

6] God is a sure paymaster

7] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

8] The love of money is the root of all evil

9] What’s done is done

10] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

11] Do as the friar says, not as he does

12] Come with the wind, got with the water

13] Good luck beats early rising

14] Every advantage has its disadvantage

15] A prophet is without honour in his own country

16] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

17] He that ventures not fails not.

18] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

19] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

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

21] When meat is in anger is out

22] Example is the greatest of all seducers

23] Without luck, it is better not to be born

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

25] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

26] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

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

28] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

29] Everything in moderation.

30] Respect is greater from a distance

31] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

32] As long lives a merry man as a sad

33] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

34] He stands not surely that never slips

35] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

36] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

37] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

38] The tongue talks at the heads cost

39] Water is the king of food

40] In peace, prepare for war

41] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

42] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

43] Distance lends enchantment to the view

44] Misfortune does not always come to injure

45] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

46] He that blows best, bears away the horn

47] Too much hope deceives

48] An Englishman’s home is his castle

49] Numbers overcome the brave

50] Soon hot, soon cold

51] Truth is stranger than fiction

52] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

53] Make the best of a bad job

54] Soft fire makes sweet malt

55] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

56] One today is worth two tomorrows

57] Beauty fades like a flower.

58] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

59] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

60] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

61] What cannot gold do?

62] There is safety in numbers

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

64] Fire is a good servant a bad master

65] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

66] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

67] One father is more than a hundred school masters

68] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

69] He that lends, gives

70] Never too late to late to repent

71] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

72] Adam’s ale is the best brew

73] The envious man shall never want woe

74] The good is often the enemy of the best

75] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

76] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

77] The day obliterates the promise of the might

78] Ill gotten, ill spent

79] You win some, you lose some

80] Wrong never comes right

81] A good paymaster needs no surety

82] Great barkers are no biters

83] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

84] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

85] A burnt child dreads the fire

86] Good to begin well, better to end well.

87] God’s lambs will play.

88] It will be the same a hundred years hence

89] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

90] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

91] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

92] Paddle your own canoe

93] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

94] Love delights in praise

95] A good dog deserves a good bone

96] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

97] Cast not the first stone.

98] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

99] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

100] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s