Famous Proverbs

1] A man of courage never wants weapons

2] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

3] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

4] Variety is the spice of life

5] Give the devil his due

6] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

7] Who greases his way travels easily

8] His own ingenuity pricks him.

9] The course of true love never did run smooth

10] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

11] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

12] Don’t play with edged tools

13] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

14] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

15] A man in debt is caught in a net

16] Borrowed garments never fit well

17] The greatest step is that out of doors

18] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

19] Health and money go far

20] He that has an ill name is half hanged

21] Idle folks lack no excuses

22] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

23] Plain dealing is best

24] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

25] Variety takes away satiety

26] Desires are nourished by delays

27] Honest is the best policy

28] Do not wear out your welcome

29] Every may be has a may not be

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

31] Excessive happiness produces pain

32] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

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

34] Few words are best

35] A true friend is forever a friend

36] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

37] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

38] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

39] Trusting often makes fidelity

40] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

41] Forewarned is forearmed

42] No convenience without its inconvenience

43] One is not smelt where all stink

44] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

45] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

46] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

47] Health without money is half an ague

48] A good marksman may miss

49] Confess and be hanged

50] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

51] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

52] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

53] A man with no hands is given a ring.

54] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

55] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

56] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

57] A word spoken is past recalling

58] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

59] Everything in moderation.

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

61] His bark is worse than his bite

62] One master in a house is enough

63] Better sit still than rise and fall

64] It takes a wise man to be a fool

65] You are never too old to learn

66] A fool always rushes to the fore.

67] Creditors have better memories than debtors

68] A fool may give a wise man counsel

69] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

70] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

71] There is nothing new under the sun

72] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

73] Poverty is not a crime

74] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

75] Curiosity killed the cat.

76] Crime does not pay

77] None so blind as those who will not see

78] Frugality is the mother of virtue

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

80] Morning dreams come true

81] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

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

83] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

84] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

85] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

86] Care killed the cat

87] Pardon makes offenders

88] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

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

90] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

91] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

92] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

93] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

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

95] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

96] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

97] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

98] We are all Adam’s children

99] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

100] Bad luck often brings good luck