Famous Proverbs

1] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

2] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

3] Good broth may be made in an old pot

4] Don’t take your harp to the party

5] Give and spend, and God will send

6] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

7] He that pities another remembers himself

8] Misery loves company.

9] He that burns most, shines most

10] Goodness is better than beauty

11] White there’s life there’s hope

12] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

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

14] None so deaf as those that will not hear

15] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

16] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

17] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

18] No man can serve two masters

19] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

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

21] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

22] When one door shuts, another opens

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

24] Every Jack must have his Jill

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

26] Friends are thieves of time

27] Common fame is a liar

28] There’s a black sheep in every flock

29] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

30] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

31] A house divided against itself cannot stand

32] A good name is a rich heritage

33] A good servant must have good wages

34] If the cap fits, wear it

35] Misfortune does not always come to injure

36] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

37] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

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

39] The tailor makes the man

40] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

41] Coming events cast their shadows before

42] Distance lends enchantment to the view

43] Law makers should not be law breakers

44] History repeats itself

45] As you bake, so shall you eat.

46] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

47] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

48] Better never begin than never make an end

49] Jesters do oft prove prophets

50] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

51] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

52] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

53] Bread is the staff of life.

54] Borrowed garments never fit well

55] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

56] There is no garden without its weeds

57] He laughs best who laughs last

58] No man is born wise or learned

59] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

60] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

61] All are not saints that go to church

62] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

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

64] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

65] The fox may grow grey, but never good

66] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

67] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

68] He that does most at once, does least

69] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

70] Give and take is fair play

71] That which is easily done is soon believed

72] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

73] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

74] Truth conquers all things

75] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

76] It takes two to make a quarrel

77] Too much curiosity lost paradise

78] Every dog is a lion at home

79] Every cloud has a silver lining

80] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

81] Self do, self have

82] He who sows, trusts in God

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

84] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

85] Vice makes virtue shine

86] Early sow, early mow

87] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

88] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

89] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

90] Make the best of a bad job

91] A golden key opens every door

92] Spread the table, and contention will cease

93] Don’t meet trouble half-way

94] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

95] Needs must when the devil drives

96] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

97] Will is the cause of woe

98] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

99] Laws were made to be broke

100] Better are small fish than an empty dish