Famous Proverbs

1] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

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

3] Good broth may be made in an old pot

4] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

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

6] He that lives ill, fear follows him

7] The labourer is worthy of his hire

8] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

9] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

10] Extremes meet

11] He that brings good news, knocks hard

12] Children learn to creep ere they can go

13] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

14] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

15] Kingdoms divided soon fall

16] Pat any man and dust will fly

17] Self-praise is no recommendation

18] Health is not value till sickness comes

19] No land without stones, or meat without bones

20] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

21] Live not to eat, but eat to live

22] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

23] Better unborn than untaught

24] Every path has a puddle

25] Let us do evil that good may come

26] As long lives a merry man as a sad

27] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

28] The bull must be taken by the horns

29] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

30] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

31] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

32] It takes all sorts to make a world

33] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

34] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

35] Love me, love the crows on my roof

36] Findings are keepings

37] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

38] Of evil manners, spring good laws

39] Go while the going is good

40] Patience is the remedy of the world

41] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

42] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

43] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

44] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

45] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

46] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

47] Poverty is not a crime

48] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

49] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

50] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

51] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

52] Manners make the man

53] It is easier to pull down than to build

54] A great city, a great solitude

55] He that will thrive must rise at five

56] New things are fair

57] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

58] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

59] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

60] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

61] Two blacks do not make a white

62] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

63] He laughs best who laughs last

64] A jest breaks no bones

65] Too much curiosity lost paradise

66] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

67] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

68] The good die young.

69] There is no smoke without fire

70] A good heart conquers ill fortune

71] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

72] He stands not surely that never slips

73] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

74] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

75] The early bird catches the worm

76] Barking dogs seldom bite

77] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

78] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

79] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

80] He that has no shame has no conscience

81] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

82] Saying is one thing, and doing another

83] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

84] Ill news comes unsent for.

85] Spread the table, and contention will cease

86] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

87] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

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

89] A closed mouth catches no files

90] Time lost cannot be recalled

91] Four eyes see more than two

92] The resolved mind has no cares

93] Those near the temple deride the gods

94] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

95] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

96] Better sit still than rise and fall

97] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

98] To err is human; to forgive, divine

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

100] Money is the root of all evil