Famous Proverbs

1] No pains, no gains

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

3] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

4] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

5] Prove your friend ere you have need

6] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

7] If you have known one, you have known them all

8] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

9] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

10] Threatened folk live long

11] As you sow, so shall you reap

12] The sign brings customers

13] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

14] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

15] Practice makes perfect

16] Lend never that thing you needed most

17] Content is better than riches

18] Every little helps

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

20] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

21] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

22] The early bird catches the worm

23] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

24] There is no blindness like ignorance

25] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

26] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

27] He that talks much, errs much

28] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

29] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

30] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

31] A still tongue makes a wise head

32] The faulty stands on his guard

33] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

34] Asking costs little

35] Everyone to his taste

36] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

37] There are more men threatened than stricken

38] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

39] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

40] Habit is second nature

41] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

42] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

43] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

44] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

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

46] Each day brings its own bread

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

48] Things are seldom what they seem.

49] Good hand, good hire

50] It is too late to call back yesterday

51] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

52] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

53] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

54] Everything is good in its season

55] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

56] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

57] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

58] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

59] Petty laws breed great crimes

60] Prove your friend ere you have need

61] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

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

63] A beggar can never be bankrupt

64] Better to ask the way than go astray.

65] Remember, you are but a man

66] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

67] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

68] A man may bear till his back breaks

69] There are more ways to the wood than one.

70] Much meat, much malady

71] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

72] Light burden I heavy if far borne

73] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

74] Truth is stranger than fiction

75] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

76] No convenience without its inconvenience

77] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

78] He is lifeless that is faultless

79] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

80] A good paymaster never wants workmen

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

82] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

83] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

84] Call no man happy till he is dead

85] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

86] All lay loads on a willing horse

87] He that is down need fear no fall

88] Anger without power is folly

89] There is a black sheep in every flock

90] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

91] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

92] Fine words dress ill deeds

93] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

94] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

95] Common fame is a liar

96] God is a sure paymaster

97] The longest day must have an end

98] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

99] Dreams go by contraries

100] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest