Famous Proverbs

1] Busiest men find the most time

2] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

3] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

4] A good heart conquers ill fortune

5] Nature hates all sudden changes

6] Needs must when the evil drives

7] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

8] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

9] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

10] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

11] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

12] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

13] A gift much expected is paid, not given

14] Seek and you shall find

15] The coward threatens only when he is safe

16] Poverty parts friendship

17] The hole calls the thief

18] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

19] Take the will for the deed

20] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

21] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

22] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

23] Goodness is better than beauty

24] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

25] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

26] Repentance is a bitter physic

27] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

28] Of three main roads, take the middle one

29] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

30] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

31] Might overcome right.

32] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

33] The fairest silk is soonest stained

34] Make hay while the sun shines

35] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

36] What the king wills, that the law wills

37] Lookers-on see most of the game

38] There’s a time and place for everything

39] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

40] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

41] Dirty water does not wash clean.

42] A good wife is a good prize

43] Never spur a willing horse

44] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

45] A good name is better than a golden girdle

46] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

47] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

48] Many doctors, death accomplished

49] Moderation in all things

50] One sheep follows another

51] Health is better than wealth

52] Fine feathers make fine birds.

53] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

54] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

55] Like mistress, like maid

56] He who touches pitch will be defiled

57] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

58] Love and business teach eloquence

59] Money isn’t everything

60] Bold men have generous hearts

61] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

62] There is many a fair thing full false

63] Creditors have better memories than debtors

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

65] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

66] You may know by a handful the whole sack

67] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

68] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

69] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

70] A wicked man is his own hell

71] A strong town is not won in an hour

72] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

73] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

74] A man’s studies pass in to his character

75] The receiver is as bad as the thief

76] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

77] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

78] Thrift is a great revenue

79] Good fame is better than a good face

80] Best is cheapest

81] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

82] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

83] A man may bear till his back breaks

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

85] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

86] There is no place like home

87] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

88] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

89] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

90] Riches along make no men happy

91] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

92] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

93] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

94] The child is father of the man

95] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

96] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

97] Lovers are madmen

98] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

99] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

100] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them