Famous Proverbs

1] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

2] No man limps because another is hurt

3] No answer is also an answer

4] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

5] He conquers who endures

6] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

7] Experience is the best teacher

8] What may be done at any time is done at no time

9] The good die young.

10] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

11] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

12] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

13] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

14] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

15] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

16] A hungry man is angry man

17] Life begins only in success

18] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

19] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

20] Shrouds have no pockets

21] Every man must carry his own cross

22] The devil lurks behind the cross

23] The word is far him who has patience

24] Procrastination is the thief of time

25] Easier said than done

26] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

27] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

28] Give and spend, and God will send

29] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

30] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

31] None so blind as those who will not see

32] Idle folks have the least leisure

33] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

34] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

35] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

36] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

37] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

38] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

39] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

40] Many drops make a shower

41] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

42] The devil knows many things because he is old

43] A useful trade is a mine of gold

44] Change brings life

45] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

46] A good Conscience is the best divinity

47] He who envies admits his inferiority

48] What is a workman without his tools?

49] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

50] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

51] The ant had wings to her hurt

52] Call a spade a spade

53] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

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

55] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

56] Children and fools have merry lives

57] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

58] The age of miracles is past

59] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

60] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

61] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

62] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

63] The longest day must have an end

64] Needs must when the devil drives

65] Enough is enough

66] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

67] One master in a house is enough

68] Slow help is no help

69] Waste is not grandeur

70] Wife and Children are bills of charges

71] Dirty linen should be washed at home

72] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

73] One thief will not rob another

74] Everything must have a beginning

75] Every cloud has a silver lining

76] A bully is always a coward

77] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

78] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

79] There’s no place like home

80] Envy never enriched any man.

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

82] He that has an ill name is half hanged

83] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

84] Honesty is ill to thrive by

85] It is misery enough to have once been happy

86] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

87] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

88] Better the last smile than the first laugh

89] A good heart conquers ill fortune

90] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

91] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

92] At open doors, dogs come in

93] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

94] He who comes first, grinds first.

95] Better late than never, but better never late

96] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

97] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

98] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

99] A good husband makes a good wife

100] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost