Famous Proverbs

1] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

2] Too much hope deceives

3] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

4] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

5] Be still and have thy will

6] Better a bare foot than none

7] New things are fair

8] Soon hot, soon cold

9] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

10] Half a word is enough for a wise man

11] He that lends, gives

12] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

13] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

14] He knows which side his bread is buttered

15] An old dog barks not in vain

16] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

17] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

18] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

19] Health is not value till sickness comes

20] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

21] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

22] The pot calls the kettle black

23] Ambition makes people diligent

24] The sun shines upon all alike.

25] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

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

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

28] Still waters run deep

29] Every cloud has a silver lining

30] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

31] Dirty water does not wash clean.

32] Youth will have its course.

33] Poverty is no sin

34] The best is often the enemy of the good

35] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

36] A heavy purse makes a light heart

37] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

38] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

39] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

40] Sickness soaks the purse

41] There is many a true word spoken in jest

42] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

43] The best wine comes from an old vessel

44] One must howl with the wolves

45] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

46] Like mistress, like maid

47] Fingers were made before forks

48] Hunger is the teacher of many

49] That which proves too much proves nothing

50] Time and tide wait for no man

51] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

52] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

53] He would command must serve

54] At a good bargain thinks twice

55] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

56] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

57] Custom reconciles us to everything

58] What the king wills, that the law wills

59] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

60] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

61] Either mend or end

62] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

63] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

64] Business is business

65] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

66] All is vanity.

67] Distance lends enchantment to the view

68] Small is the seed of every greatness

69] Parents are patterns

70] It is good to follow the old fox

71] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

72] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

73] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

74] Nature does nothing in vain

75] A little body often harbours a great soul

76] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

77] III luck is good for something

78] Self do, self have

79] Out of debt, out of danger

80] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

81] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

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

83] Live and Learn

84] Honour is the reward of virtue

85] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

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

87] Judge not, that ye be not judged

88] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

89] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

90] More have repented speech than silence

91] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

92] Lose a leg rather than a life

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

94] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

95] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

96] Sooner begun, sooner done

97] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

98] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

99] Don’t kick against the pricks

100] Time and tide wait for no man