Famous Proverbs

1] The garment worn determines how one is served

2] Better late than never

3] How forceful are right words

4] Home is where the heart is

5] Big words seldom go with good deeds

6] They say so’ is half a lie

7] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

8] Man does what he can, and God what he will

9] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

10] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

11] A healthy man is a successful man

12] Mirth is the sugar of life

13] Custom makes all things easy

14] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

15] A word is enough to the wise

16] A true friend is forever a friend

17] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

18] Every man to his trade.

19] A good payer is master of another’s purse

20] Wrong never comes right

21] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

22] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

23] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

24] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

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

26] Men are known by the company they keep.

27] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

28] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

29] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

30] Even water has its ebb and flow

31] No man is a hero to his valet

32] Diamond cuts diamond

33] God is always on the side of the big battalions

34] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

35] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

36] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

37] Silence gives (or means) consent

38] Better late than never, but better never late

39] No convenience without its inconvenience

40] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

41] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

42] Beware of him who makes thee presents

43] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

44] Prevention is better than cure

45] Enough is enough

46] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

47] A miss is as good as a mile

48] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

49] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

50] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

51] Don’t take your harp to the party

52] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

53] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

54] He that blows best, bears away the horn

55] From small beginnings come great things

56] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

57] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

58] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

59] The highest tree has the greatest fall

60] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

61] Ill news comes unsent for.

62] Light burden I heavy if far borne

63] A word spoken is past recalling

64] A bully is always a coward

65] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

66] Wise men silent, fools talk

67] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

68] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

69] Judge not, that ye be not judged

70] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

71] A watched pot never boils

72] When angry, count a hundred

73] Comparisons are odious

74] A good payer is master of another’s purse

75] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

76] A wise man hears one word and understands two

77] Give and spend, and God will send

78] God makes the back for the burden

79] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

80] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

81] It will be the same a hundred years hence

82] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

83] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

84] The good die young.

85] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

86] First think, and then speak

87] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

88] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

89] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

90] Many dishes make many diseases

91] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

92] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

93] Every groom is a king at home

94] Weak things united become strong

95] Mere wishes are silly fishes

96] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

97] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

98] Ill news comes apace.

99] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

100] A word is enough to the wise