Famous Proverbs

1] In haste is error

2] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

3] A good garden may have some ill weeds

4] He that promises too much means nothing

5] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

6] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

7] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

8] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

9] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

10] Hitch your wagon to a star

11] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

12] Better be a fool than a knave

13] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

14] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

15] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

16] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

17] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

18] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

19] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

20] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

21] A hungry man smells meat afar off

22] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

23] All things are easy, that are done willingly

24] Half a word is enough for a wise man

25] Idle folks lack no excuses

26] He thinks not well that thinks not again

27] The best things are hard to come by.

28] You must grin and bear it

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

30] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

31] There is none misfortune cannot reach

32] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

33] Fire is a good servant a bad master

34] Know thyself

35] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

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

37] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

38] Many doctors, death accomplished

39] Patience is the remedy of the world

40] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

41] He that has plenty of goods will have more

42] One may change the place but not the mind.

43] Men are not to be measured in inches

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

45] Black will take no other hue

46] A strong town is not won in an hour

47] Set a thief to catch a thief

48] Charity begins at home.

49] He who last, laughs longest.

50] No tie can oblige the perfidious

51] Now is now, and then was then

52] Lend never that thing you needed most

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

54] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

55] Even Homer sometimes nods

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

57] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

58] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

59] Better are small fish than an empty dish

60] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

61] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

62] Confess and be hanged

63] Let like mate with like

64] A good paymaster needs no surety

65] Patient waiters are no losers

66] We live laws, not by examples

67] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

68] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

69] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

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

71] Wash your dirty linen at home

72] Early sow, early mow

73] The great fish eat up the small

74] Quietness is a great treasure

75] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

76] Practice makes perfect

77] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

78] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

79] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

80] Set a thief to catch a thief

81] Exchange is no robbery

82] Manners make the man

83] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

84] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

85] The Pen is mightier than the sword

86] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

87] For a web begun, God sends the thread

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

89] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

90] The greatest talkers are the least doers

91] All meat pleases not all mouths

92] No wrong without a remedy

93] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

94] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

95] A good conscience is a soft pillow

96] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

97] Strength grows stronger by being tried

98] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

99] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

100] The best of men are but men at best.