Famous Proverbs

1] God’s lambs will play.

2] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

3] Good is good but better carries it

4] What is money to a cat?

5] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

6] Do as the friar says, not as he does

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

8] Care killed the cat

9] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

10] Don’t tell tales out of school

11] Might is right

12] Fair face, foul heart

13] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

14] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

15] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

16] Patience surpasses learning

17] All covet all lose.

18] Bad news travels fast

19] Sorrow will pay no debt

20] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

21] Better to ask the way than go astray.

22] Poverty is no sin

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

24] Nothing comes from nothing

25] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

26] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

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

28] Second thoughts are best

29] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

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

31] He that pities another remembers himself

32] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

33] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

34] In wine there is truth

35] Every advantage has its disadvantage

36] Covetousness is the root of all evil

37] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

38] A loveless life is a living death

39] Love and business teach eloquence

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

41] It is not work that kills but worry

42] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

43] East or west, home is best

44] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

45] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

46] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

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

48] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

49] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

50] Silence never makes mistakes

51] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

52] The sign brings customers

53] Step by step the ladder is ascended

54] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

55] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

56] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

57] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

58] Health without money is half an ague

59] The resolved mind has no cares

60] Intimacy lessens fame

61] Gossiping and lying go together

62] Barking dogs seldom bite

63] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

64] Too long burden makes weary bones

65] As long lives a merry man as a sad

66] Soft fire makes sweet malt

67] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

68] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

69] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

70] It is the first step that is troublesome

71] A good conscience is a sure card

72] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

73] Don’t cry before you are hurt

74] Time flies

75] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

76] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

77] An army marches on its stomach

78] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

79] Virtue joints man to god

80] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

81] Waste is not grandeur

82] The first step is the hardest

83] In fair weather prepare for foul

84] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

85] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

86] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

87] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

88] Better be a fool than a knave

89] Hard words break no bones

90] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

91] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

92] Content is better than riches

93] Practice is the science that gives confidence

94] No man so good but another may be as good as he

95] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

96] A golden key opens every door

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

98] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

99] Let like mate with like

100] A man can die but once