Famous Proverbs

1] True gold is not transformed by fire

2] There is honour among thieves

3] Care brings grey hair.

4] Clothes do not make the man

5] Better be alone than in bad company

6] Half a word is enough for a wise man

7] Better children weep than old men

8] Borrowed garments never fit well

9] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

10] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

11] Good fences make good neighbours

12] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

13] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

14] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

15] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

16] Men are blind in their own cause

17] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

18] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

19] First catch your hare

20] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

21] He that will thrive must rise at five

22] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

23] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

24] A heavy purse makes a light heart

25] Dirty water does not wash clean.

26] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

27] Better late than never, but better never late

28] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

29] Live not to eat, but eat to live

30] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

31] Death keeps no calendar

32] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

33] Custom reconciles us to everything

34] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

35] He that has plenty of goods will have more

36] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

37] Once a knave, always a knave

38] He travels the fastest who travels alone

39] Words and feathers the wind carries away

40] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

41] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

42] Hope is grief’s best music

43] An egg thief will become a camel thief

44] We live laws, not by examples

45] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

46] Of a new prince, new bondage

47] Barking dogs seldom bite

48] Old vessels must leak

49] Success makes a fool seem wise.

50] Better to ask the way than go astray.

51] There is a black sheep in every flock

52] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

53] Don’t take your harp to the party

54] If you want peace, prepare for war

55] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

56] Manners and money make a gentleman

57] Hunger is sharper than the sword

58] In fair weather prepare for foul

59] Where there is peace, there is blessing

60] Vice makes virtue shine

61] All things are easy, that are done willingly

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

63] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

64] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

65] Light burden I heavy if far borne

66] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

67] Like father, like son

68] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

69] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

70] Work expands so as to fill the time available

71] Good wine needs no bush

72] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

73] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

74] Patience is a virtue

75] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

76] A true friend is forever a friend

77] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

78] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

79] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

80] Ill luck is good for something

81] A strong town is not won in an hour

82] Of a new prince, new bondage

83] Honour is the reward of virtue

84] A still tongue makes a wise head

85] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

86] A man of courage never wants weapons

87] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

88] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

89] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

90] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

91] Don’t kick against the pricks

92] Don’t cry before you are hurt

93] The greatest step is that out of doors

94] Stolen sweets are sweeter

95] What is worth doing is worth doing well

96] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

97] All things require skills but an appetite

98] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

99] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

100] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him