Famous Proverbs

1] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

2] Even Homer sometimes nods

3] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

4] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

5] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

6] Far fowls have fair feather

7] A strong town is not won in an hour

8] A little too late, is much too late

9] An Englishman’s home is his castle

10] Think on the end before you begin

11] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

12] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

13] Trust is the mother of deceit

14] The first step is the hardest

15] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

16] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

17] Dogs bark as they are bred.

18] Good hand, good hire

19] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

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

21] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

22] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

23] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

24] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

25] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

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

27] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

28] One is what one eats

29] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

30] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

31] Will is no skill

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

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

34] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

35] No garden without its weeds.

36] A goose drinks as much as gander

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

38] Pleasing ware is half sold

39] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

40] Keep something for a rainy day

41] A man’s wealth is his enemy

42] Long life has long misery

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

44] Of two evils choose the lesser

45] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

46] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

47] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

48] Precept begins, examples accomplish

49] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

50] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

51] Will is no skill

52] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

53] What costs little is little esteemed

54] Dreams are lies

55] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

56] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

57] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

58] A good conscience is a constant feast

59] First thrive then wive

60] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

61] After a storm comes a calm

62] Precept begins, examples accomplish

63] Things are only worth one makes them worth

64] High places have their precipices

65] Despair gives courage to a coward

66] Wake not a sleeping lion

67] Go while the going is good

68] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

69] Appearances are deceptive

70] Good words are worth much and cost little

71] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

72] Even silence may be eloquent

73] Liars should have good memories

74] Share and share alike

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

76] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

77] Charity excuseth not cheating.

78] Have two strings to your bow

79] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

80] A good face is a letter of recommendation

81] He that sows virtue reaps fame

82] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

83] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

84] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

85] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

86] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

87] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

88] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

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

90] Nature is conquered by obeying her

91] The belly carries the legs

92] A man may learn wit every day.

93] Love is lawless.

94] Where there are reeds, there is water

95] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

96] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

97] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

98] Where there’s a will there’s a way

99] Wedlock is padlock

100] Never judge from appearances