Famous Proverbs

1] Love sees no fault

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

3] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

4] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

5] Experience must be bought

6] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

7] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

8] An army marches on its stomach

9] There’s a black sheep in every flock

10] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

11] Sooner begun, sooner done

12] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

13] Ambition loses many a man

14] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

15] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

16] He conquers who endures

17] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

18] Children and fools cannot lie.

19] All glory comes from daring to begin

20] Young colts will canter.

21] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

22] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

23] The more laws, the more offenders

24] One must howl with the wolves

25] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

26] Quietness is a great treasure

27] Harp not for ever on the same string

28] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

29] Man punishes the action but God the intention

30] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

31] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

32] The race is got by running

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

34] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

35] Take things as they come

36] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

37] There is truth in wine

38] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

39] No flying without wings.

40] Never spur a willing horse

41] Might is right

42] Virtue is the only true nobility

43] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

44] Too much hope deceives

45] Love me, love my dog

46] All lay loads on a willing horse

47] A joke’s a very serious thing

48] Bad luck often brings good luck

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

50] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

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

52] An old horse knows the route

53] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

54] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

55] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

56] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

57] A man may bear till his back breaks

58] Other times, other manners

59] Give and spend, and God will send

60] Travel broadens the mind

61] A loveless life is a living death

62] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

63] Better belly burst than good meat lost

64] The labour we delight in physics pain

65] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

66] Custom reconciles us to everything

67] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

68] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

69] Go not to hell for company

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

71] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

72] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

73] We shall lie all alike in our graves

74] A man of courage never wants weapons

75] He that knows little often repeats it

76] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

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

78] Like question, like answer.

79] Fine feathers make fine birds.

80] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

81] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

82] Do not kick against the pricks

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

84] Variety is the spice of life

85] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

86] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

87] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

88] An Englishman’s home is his castle

89] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

90] A miss is as good as a mile

91] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

92] He that can stay. Obtains

93] Where there are reeds, there is water

94] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

95] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

96] Kindness lies in one side of the house

97] Lose a leg rather than a life

98] A word spoken is past recalling

99] More have repented speech than silence

100] In everything consider the end