Famous Proverbs

1] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

2] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

3] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

4] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

5] Be just before you are generous

6] There is no fool like an old fool

7] Delay is the antidote of anger

8] One is not smelt where all stink

9] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

10] Paddle your own canoe

11] When angry, count a hundred

12] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

13] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

14] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

15] Ill luck is good for something

16] Diamond cuts diamond

17] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

18] It is best to be on the safe side

19] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

20] Mercy surpasses justice

21] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

22] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

23] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

24] Desert and reward seldom keep company

25] Experience must be bought

26] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

27] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

28] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

29] Love can find a way

30] Procrastination is the thief of time

31] There’s always room at the top

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

33] Better a bare foot than none

34] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

35] Threatened folk live long

36] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

37] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

38] Four eyes see more than two

39] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

40] Laugh and grow fat

41] As you bake, so shall you eat.

42] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

43] An evil life is a kind of death.

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

45] Threatened folk live long

46] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

47] Health and money go far

48] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

49] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

50] Much science, much sorrow

51] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

52] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

53] There’s a black sheep in every flock

54] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

55] Crust is better than no bread

56] What is the mother of industry

57] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

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

59] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

60] Human blood is all of a colour

61] He is lifeless that is faultless

62] He who envies admits his inferiority

63] They also serve who only stand and wait

64] Honest is the best policy

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

66] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

67] Things are only worth one makes them worth

68] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

69] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

70] It is easy to be wise after the event

71] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

72] The day obliterates the promise of the might

73] Precept begins, examples accomplish

74] All covet all lose.

75] Every law has a loophole

76] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

77] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

78] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

79] Great minds think alike

80] Better an apple given than eaten

81] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

82] A straight stick is crooked in water

83] Love knows no limit

84] Crime does not pay

85] Trusting often makes fidelity

86] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

87] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

88] Small is beautiful

89] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

90] The ant had wings to her hurt

91] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

92] Other times, other manners

93] Few words are best

94] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

95] Every dog is a lion at home

96] Have two strings to your bow

97] One thief will not rob another

98] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

99] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

100] Every man to his trade.