Famous Proverbs

1] All are not saints that go to church

2] Good ware makes quick market

3] Good is good but better carries it

4] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

5] He who does no good, does evil enough

6] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

7] Silence and thinking can no man offend

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

9] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

10] Dirty linen should be washed at home

11] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

12] Brevity is the soul of wit

13] Two heads are better than one

14] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

15] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

16] Example is better than precept

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

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

19] Let like mate with like

20] The love of money is the root of all evil

21] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

22] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

23] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

24] A wicked man is his own hell

25] Silence never makes mistakes

26] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

27] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

28] It is more blessed to give than to receive

29] We don’t get something for nothing

30] Nothing is given so freely as advice

31] Never do things by halves

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

33] Live not to eat, but eat to live

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

35] Eat to live and not live to eat.

36] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

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

38] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

39] New things are fair

40] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

41] Forecast is better than work-hard

42] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

43] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

44] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

45] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

46] Better say noting than no to the purpose

47] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

48] Patience is a virtue

49] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

50] Wise men do not argue with idiots

51] Hear twice before you speak once

52] As you brew, so shall you drink.

53] Prevention is better than cure

54] Even Homer sometimes nods

55] Homo is a common name to all men.

56] When one door shuts, another opens

57] Poverty is not a crime

58] The longest way round is the shortest way home

59] To err is human

60] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

61] The best things in life are free

62] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

63] Long absent, soon forgotten

64] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

65] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

66] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

67] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

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

69] He that promises too much means nothing

70] A knave and a fool never take thought

71] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

72] A good name is better than a golden girdle

73] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

74] No man is content with his lot

75] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

76] Discontent is the first step in progress

77] Too many cooks spoil the broth

78] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

79] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

80] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

81] The thread breaks where it is weakest

82] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

83] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

84] Every beginning is hard

85] Let like mate with like

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

87] Even silence may be eloquent

88] The ass that brays most eats

89] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

90] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

91] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

92] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

93] Fine words dress ill deeds

94] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

95] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

96] He that sows virtue reaps fame

97] An ill tongue may do much

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

99] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

100] Health is better than wealth