Famous Proverbs

1] Fair exchange is no robbery

2] Give a loan and buy quarrel

3] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

4] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

5] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

6] Don’t try to run before you walk

7] Learn to walk before you run

8] Friendship should not be all on one side

9] Leave well alone

10] A scalded cat fears hot water.

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

12] Least said, soonest mended

13] One today is worth two tomorrows

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

15] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

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

17] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

18] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

19] Rats know the ways of rats

20] Every man to his trade.

21] Like master, like man

22] Take the will for the deed

23] Names and natures do often agree

24] A good lawyer must be a great liar

25] The early bird catches the worm

26] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

27] We don’t get something for nothing

28] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

29] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

30] A still tongue makes a wise head

31] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

32] Ambition makes people diligent

33] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

34] To teach is to learn twice over

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

36] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

37] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

38] Liars should have good memories

39] There is no blindness like ignorance

40] He that sows virtue reaps fame

41] Be still and have thy will

42] Many hands make light work

43] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

44] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

45] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

46] A little learning is dangerous thing

47] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

48] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

49] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

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

51] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

52] More have repented speech than silence

53] There is many a fair thing full false

54] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

55] Time flies

56] Money is the sinews of war

57] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

58] Be careful to whom you give

59] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

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

61] A healthy man is a successful man

62] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

63] Children learn to creep ere they can go

64] Great trees keep down the little ones

65] Things are seldom what they seem.

66] Let not your tongue run at rover

67] Suffering does not manifest itself

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

69] Great hopes make great men

70] The absent saint gets no candle

71] Every why has a wherefore

72] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

73] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

74] The wisest of the wise may err.

75] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

76] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

77] The Pen is mightier than the sword

78] There is many a fair thing full false

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

80] He freezes who does not burn

81] Facts are stubborn things

82] Half an egg is better than empty shell

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

84] Christmas comes but once a year

85] Cowards die many times before their deaths

86] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

87] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

88] We soon believe what we desire

89] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

90] The deed comes back upon the doer.

91] Precept begins, examples accomplish

92] Cheats never prosper

93] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

94] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

95] Numbers overcome the brave

96] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

97] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

98] A good beginning is half the battle.

99] Example is the greatest of all seducers

100] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone