Famous Proverbs

1] Praise no man till he is dead.

2] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

3] No man is infallible

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

5] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

6] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

7] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

8] All for one, and one for all.

9] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

10] Better say noting than no to the purpose

11] Six feet of earth make all men equal

12] More have repented speech than silence

13] A light purse makes a heavy heart

14] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

15] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

16] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

17] Either mend or end

18] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

19] From word to deed is a great space

20] You may have too much of a good thing

21] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

22] Jack is as good as his master

23] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

24] The first step is the only difficulty

25] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

26] Long life has long misery

27] Beauty is only skin deep

28] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

29] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

30] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

31] Poor folk fare the best

32] Take time by the forelock

33] There is many a fair thing full false

34] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

35] All is vanity.

36] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

37] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

38] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

39] 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

40] A scalded cat fears hot water.

41] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

42] When in doubt, do nothing

43] Threatened folk live long

44] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

45] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

46] A cat has nine lives

47] Home is home though it be never so homely

48] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

49] Crowns have cares

50] Change brings life

51] Failure teaches success

52] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

53] Life is short and time is swift

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

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

56] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

57] Take away fuel, take away flame

58] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

59] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

60] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

61] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

62] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

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

64] Ale will make a cat speak

65] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

66] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

67] The devil is not as black as he is painted

68] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

69] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

70] Patient waiters are no losers

71] Death does not recognize strength

72] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

73] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

74] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

75] A good lawyer must be a great liar

76] No pain, no cure

77] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

78] Novelty always appears handsome

79] Creditors have better memories than debtors

80] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

81] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

82] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

83] Numbers overcome the brave

84] Never say die

85] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

86] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

87] Hope often deludes the foolish man

88] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

89] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

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

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

92] What cannot gold do?

93] Rome was not built in a day

94] Revenge never repairs an injury

95] Pleasant hours fly past

96] Nature surpasses art

97] The sign brings customers

98] The bait hides the hook

99] We shall lie all alike in our graves

100] Things are seldom what they seem.