Famous Proverbs

1] Bread is the staff of life.

2] The tide must be taken when it comes

3] It is a great victory that comes without blood

4] Far fowls have fair feather

5] Faint heart never won fair lady

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

7] The best things come in small packages

8] Love delights in praise

9] All is fair in love and war

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

11] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

12] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

13] Anger managers everything badly.

14] He that blows best, bears away the horn

15] Example, is better than precept

16] There is nothing new under the sun

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

18] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

19] New lords, new laws

20] There is nothing that costs less than civility

21] A traveller may lie with authority

22] An Englishman’s home is his castle

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

24] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

25] Empty vessels make the most noise

26] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

27] Little pitchers have big ears.

28] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

29] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

30] A bad padlock invites a picklock

31] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

32] The falling drops hollow the stone

33] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

34] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

35] Poverty parts friendship

36] A bad excuse is better than none at all

37] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

38] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

39] What has been, may be

40] Fire is a good servant a bad master

41] Learning is the eye of the mind

42] Use makes mastery

43] Fish begins to stink at the head

44] He who never was sick dies the first fit

45] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

46] Needs must when the devil drives

47] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

48] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

49] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

50] An army marches on its stomach

51] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

52] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

53] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

54] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

55] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

56] Through obedience learn to command.

57] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

58] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

59] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

60] No tie can oblige the perfidious

61] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

62] Waste is not grandeur

63] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

64] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

65] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

66] Money is the only monarch

67] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

68] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

69] A little too late, is much too late

70] Men are not to be measured in inches

71] Every oak has been an acorn

72] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

73] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

74] No one ought to judge in his own cause

75] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

76] Better the last smile than the first laugh

77] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

78] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

79] Where there’s muck, there’s money

80] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

81] No road is long with good company

82] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

83] Money refused loses its brightness

84] Findings are keepings

85] Anger managers everything badly.

86] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

87] It is a shame to be shameless

88] Six feet of earth make all men equal

89] Too much curiosity lost paradise

90] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

91] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

92] A wicked man is his own hell

93] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

94] A goose drinks as much as gander

95] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

96] There is nothing new under the sun

97] Borrowed garments never fit well

98] If you would be well served, serve yourself

99] Man proposes, God disposes

100] Lend only that which you can afford to lose