Famous Proverbs

1] Everything is good in its season

2] Valour delights in the test

3] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

4] One must be a servant before one can be a master

5] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

6] Birds once snared fear all bushes

7] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

8] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

9] Fortune favours fools

10] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

11] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

12] Mercy surpasses justice

13] His bark is worse than his bite

14] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

15] The more wicked, the more lucky

16] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

17] Cut your coat according to your cloth

18] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

19] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

20] You are never too old to learn

21] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

22] It’s dogged that does it

23] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

24] Diamond cuts diamond

25] One is what one eats

26] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

27] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

28] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

29] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

30] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

31] Beware of no man more than himself

32] The early man ever borrows from the late man

33] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

34] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

35] God provides for him that trusts

36] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

37] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

38] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

39] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

40] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

41] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

42] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

43] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

44] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

45] Too far east is west

46] Where there are reeds, there is water

47] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

48] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

49] Of one ill come many

50] Praise no man till he is dead.

51] Her that is down need fear no fall

52] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

53] Misfortunes never come singly

54] Birds once snared fear all bushes

55] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

56] Curiosity killed the cat.

57] Work expands so as to fill the time available

58] One man’s means another man’s poison

59] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

60] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

61] Every groom is a king at home

62] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

63] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

64] No man is content with his lot

65] The best is often the enemy of the good

66] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

67] Better bend than break

68] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

69] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

70] The sun shines upon all alike.

71] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

72] He that blows best, bears away the horn

73] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

74] The greatest talkers are the least doers

75] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

76] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

77] First impressions are most lasting

78] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

79] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

80] To err is human; to forgive, divine

81] Don’t cry stinking fish

82] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

83] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

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

85] Custom reconciles us to everything

86] Custom reconciles us to everything

87] Silence is a woman’s best garment

88] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

89] An old dog barks not in vain

90] Extremity of right is wrong

91] Wise men do not argue with idiots

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

93] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

94] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

95] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

96] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

97] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

98] The absent party is always to blame.

99] A scalded cat fears hot water.

100] Ambition makes people diligent