Famous Proverbs

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

2] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

3] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

4] The best of men are but men at best.

5] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

6] It is too late to husband when all is spent

7] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

8] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

9] Sow thin and mow thin

10] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

11] Respect is greater from a distance

12] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

13] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

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

15] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

16] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

17] First impressions are half the battle

18] Things past cannot be recalled

19] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

20] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

21] Ill luck is good for something

22] There are more men threatened than stricken

23] A good example is the best sermon

24] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

25] Life begins only in success

26] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

27] Trust is the mother of deceit

28] There is no fool like an old fool

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

30] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

31] Fish and guests smell in three days

32] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

33] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

34] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

35] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

36] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

37] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

38] Four eyes see more than two

39] Patient men with the day.

40] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

41] A good name is better than a golden girdle

42] Idle folks have the least leisure

43] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

44] No answer is also an answer

45] Time flies

46] Never too late to late to repent

47] East or west, home is best

48] Little and often fills the purse

49] Love and business teach eloquence

50] Each day brings its own bread

51] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

52] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

53] Lookers-on see more than players

54] A joke’s a very serious thing

55] Every man has his price

56] No like is the same.

57] A little is better than none

58] Better no doctor at all than three.

59] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

60] Care brings grey hair.

61] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

62] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

63] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

64] Light grows the burden which is well borne

65] Will is no skill

66] New meat begets a new appetite

67] No remedy but patience

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

69] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

70] By falling we learn to go safely

71] A hungry man is angry man

72] All must be as God will

73] Much would have more

74] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

75] He laughs best who laughs last

76] Children and chickens must be always picking

77] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

78] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

79] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

80] All things that great men do are well done

81] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

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

83] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

84] Every flow must have its ebb

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

86] Silence never makes mistakes

87] Rome was not built in a day

88] Silence is golden

89] A piece of churchyard fits every body

90] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

91] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

92] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

93] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

94] The word is far him who has patience

95] Train the child in the way he should go.

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

97] Hunger is the teacher of many

98] Old vessels must leak

99] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

100] A watched pot never boils