Famous Proverbs

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

2] Numbers overcome the brave

3] The tongue talks at the heads cost

4] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

5] Necessity is mother of invention

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

7] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

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

9] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

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

11] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

12] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

13] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

14] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

15] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

16] Do it now

17] Muck and money go together

18] Health and money go far

19] The absent saint gets no candle

20] Opportunity makes the thief

21] The last drop makes the cup run over

22] Much science, much sorrow

23] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

24] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

25] Fine feathers make fine birds.

26] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

27] A little help is worth a deal of pity

28] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

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

30] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

31] Time and tide wait for no man

32] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

33] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

34] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

35] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

36] It takes all sorts to make a world

37] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

38] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

39] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

40] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

41] He that can stay. Obtains

42] If you want peace, prepare for war

43] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

44] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

45] An empty sack cannot stand upright

46] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

47] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

48] A goose drinks as much as gander

49] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

50] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

51] The ass that brays most eats

52] A bully never grows up.

53] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

54] Too much curiosity lost paradise

55] Like mistress, like maid

56] Every beginning is hard

57] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

58] The world is full of fools

59] Ale will make a cat speak

60] Money makes the man

61] At a good bargain thinks twice

62] A good beginning makes a good ending.

63] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

64] Like mistress, like maid

65] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

66] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

67] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

68] Never too late to repent

69] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

70] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

71] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

72] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

73] A parrot will only say what it is taught

74] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

75] It is the unexpected that always happens

76] Advice when most needed is least heeded

77] Little things please little minds

78] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

79] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

80] All roads lead to Rome

81] An angry man is not fit to pray

82] God helps those who help themselves

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

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

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

86] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

87] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

88] Words are but wind

89] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

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

91] Honour is the reward of virtue

92] They can do least two boast loudest

93] The highest branch is not the safest roost

94] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

95] Never refuse a good offer

96] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

97] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

98] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

99] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

100] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number