Famous Proverbs

1] The weeds overgrow the corn.

2] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

3] Honesty is the best policy

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

5] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

6] No tie can oblige the perfidious

7] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

8] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

9] Diligence is the mother of good luck

10] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

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

12] Poverty parts friendship

13] Men are not angles

14] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

15] What will not money do?

16] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

17] The great would have none great, and the little all little

18] Failure teaches success

19] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

20] Union (or Unity) is strength

21] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

22] Do as you would be done by

23] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

24] Do not wear out your welcome

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

26] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

27] Out of sight, out of mind

28] Where there is whispering there is lying

29] Beggars must not be choosers

30] Without diligence, no prize

31] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

32] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

33] Fine feathers make fine birds.

34] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

35] Who greases his way travels easily

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

37] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

38] If you want peace, prepare for war

39] Wiles help weak folk

40] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

41] Of three main roads, take the middle one

42] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

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

44] One of these days is none of these days

45] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

46] Trust not the many-minded populace

47] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

48] The world is full of fools

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

50] Remember, you are but a man

51] Adventures are to be adventurous

52] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

53] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

54] Valour delights in the test

55] Take things as you find them

56] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

57] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

58] All glory comes from daring to begin

59] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

60] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

61] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

62] Long absent, soon forgotten

63] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

64] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

65] Better ask the way than go astray

66] Good ware makes quick market

67] He who sows, trusts in God

68] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

69] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

70] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

71] The goat must browse where she is tied

72] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

73] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

74] Friendship should not be all on one

75] Silence is also speech

76] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

77] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

78] Men are not angles

79] Hitch your wagon to a star

80] Love conquers all

81] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

82] Custom reconciles us to everything

83] You know what you can do till you try.

84] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

85] Borrowed garments never fit well

86] He that travels far knows much

87] Take the tone of the company you are in

88] You are never too old to learn

89] Where there’s muck, there’s money

90] Even water has its ebb and flow

91] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

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

93] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

94] The longest day must have an end

95] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

96] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

97] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

98] The good intention excuses the bad action

99] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

100] The wisest of the wise may err.