Famous Proverbs

1] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

2] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

3] The more wicked, the more lucky

4] A true friend is forever a friend

5] No road is long with good company

6] Muck and money go together

7] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

8] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

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

10] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

11] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

12] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

13] Do unto others as they should do unto you

14] Slow and steady wins the race

15] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

16] Beware of a silent man and still water

17] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

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

19] There is nothing permanent except change

20] To err is human

21] Let bygones be bygones

22] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

23] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

24] It takes all sorts to make a world

25] A learned man has always riches in himself

26] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

28] Go not to hell for company

29] Man cannot live by bread alone

30] Fear of death is worse than death itself

31] A piece of churchyard fits every body

32] The worse luck now, the better another time

33] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

34] It is the first step that is troublesome

35] Years know more than books

36] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

37] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

38] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

39] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

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

41] Practice is the science that gives confidence

42] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

43] Where there is peace, God is

44] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

45] A good beginning makes a good ending.

46] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

47] Double charge will rive a cannon

48] Wise men silent, fools talk

49] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

50] Life means strife

51] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

52] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

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

54] The beaten road is the safest

55] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

56] One barber shaves another gratis

57] Don’t meet trouble half-way

58] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

59] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

60] An old man is a bed full of bones

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

62] Debt is an evil conscience

63] Where god will help, nothing does harm

64] A great city, a great solitude

65] Even reckoning makes long friends

66] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

67] First think, and then speak

68] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

69] Patience is a plaster for all sores

70] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

71] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

72] A hungry man is angry man

73] Trusting often makes fidelity

74] It is easy to be wise after the event

75] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

76] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

77] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

78] Despair gives courage to a coward

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

80] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

81] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

82] Extremes meet

83] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

84] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

85] He that will thrive must rise at five

86] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

87] Divide and rule

88] Make hay while the sun shines

89] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

90] Even water has its ebb and flow

91] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

92] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

93] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

94] The last suitor wins the maid

95] Much learning makes men mad

96] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

97] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

98] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

99] He that is down need fear no fall

100] To err is human; to forgive, divine