Famous Proverbs

1] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

2] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

3] There is no blindness like ignorance

4] He that brings good news, knocks hard

5] One sword keeps another in the sheath

6] The fox may grow grey, but never good

7] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

8] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

9] He that will thrive must rise at five

10] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

11] All lay loads on a willing horse

12] First come, first served

13] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

14] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

15] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

16] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

17] Better sit still than rise and fall

18] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

19] The first step is the hardest

20] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

21] Goodness is better than beauty

22] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

23] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

24] A beggar can never be bankrupt

25] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

26] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

27] Better eye sore than al blind

28] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

29] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

30] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

31] None so deaf as those that will not hear

32] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

33] The tongue stings

34] He that eats least eats most

35] Little things please little minds

36] Ill gotten, ill spent

37] Money makes the man

38] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

39] Blood will have blood

40] The last drop makes the cup run over

41] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

42] Weak things united become strong

43] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

44] Fire is a good servant a bad master

45] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

46] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

47] Choose thy company before thy drink

48] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

49] The great would have none great, and the little all little

50] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

51] Death alone can kill hope

52] One of these days is none of these days

53] Give and take is fair play

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

55] What’s in a name?

56] You can’t take it with you when you die

57] A parrot will only say what it is taught

58] Let us do evil that good may come

59] Laughter makes good blood

60] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

61] Liars should have good memories

62] One good turn deserves another

63] Whatever man has done, man can do

64] Gifts blind the eyes.

65] Everyone to his taste

66] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

67] Mirth is the sugar of life

68] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

69] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

70] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

71] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

72] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

73] Youth and age will never agree

74] The race is got by running

75] No choice amongst stinking fish

76] The game is not worth the candle

77] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

78] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

79] A bully is always a coward

80] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

81] Eat to live and not live to eat.

82] He knows most who speaks least

83] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

84] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

85] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

86] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

87] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

88] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

89] As soon as there is life there is danger

90] Novelty always appears handsome

91] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

92] All is fair in love and war

93] Better ask the way than go astray

94] Wise men propose, and fools determine

95] A man’s studies pass in to his character

96] There’s a time and place for everything

97] A change is as good as rest

98] Judge not of men and things at first sight

99] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

100] The darkest hour is that before the dawn