Famous Proverbs

1] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

2] Men are known by the company they keep.

3] Live and let live

4] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

5] Everything comes to him who waits

6] Praise is always pleasant

7] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

8] Old vessels must leak

9] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

10] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

11] Mirth is the sugar of life

12] A good drink makes the old young

13] Half an egg is better than empty shell

14] The Pen is mightier than the sword

15] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

16] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

17] Truth has no need of rhetoric

18] The result justifies the deed

19] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

20] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

21] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

22] Small is beautiful

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

24] The thing which is rare is dear

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

26] Do not limp before the lame

27] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

28] In doing we learn.

29] Good luck beats early rising

30] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

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

32] Every dog has his day

33] Hard cases make bad law

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

35] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

36] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

37] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

38] Crime does not pay

39] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

40] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

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

42] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

43] Beauty is only skin deep

44] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

45] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

46] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

47] An old ox makes a straight furrow

48] Enough is enough

49] Do as you would be done by

50] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

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

52] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

53] Without luck, it is better not to be born

54] We don’t get something for nothing

55] Moderation in all things

56] A knave and a fool never take thought

57] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

58] Years know more than books

59] Put not the bucket too often in the well

60] Poor folk fare the best

61] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

62] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

63] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

64] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

65] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

66] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

67] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

68] Books and friends should be few but good

69] We don’t get something for nothing

70] Money talks

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

72] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

73] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

74] We live laws, not by examples

75] See which way the cat jumps

76] Sickness soaks the purse

77] Fair face, foul heart

78] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

79] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

80] One foot is better than two crutches

81] Company in misery makes it light

82] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

83] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

84] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

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

86] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

87] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

88] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

89] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

90] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

91] Necessity breaks iron

92] Wine unveils the words of the heart

93] United we stand, divided we fall

94] The golden age was never the present age

95] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

96] Every man has his faults

97] Still waters run deep

98] Better an apple given than eaten

99] Better to wear out than rust out

100] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it