Famous Proverbs

1] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

2] The wisest of the wise may err.

3] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

4] Circumstances alter cases

5] Idleness is the root of all evil

6] Great minds think alike

7] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

8] Much learning makes men mad

9] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

10] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

11] Fear of death is worse than death itself

12] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

13] Don’t cry for the moon

14] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

15] Take the tone of the company you are in

16] Never spend your money before you have it

17] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

18] A good wife is a good prize

19] Ill news comes apace.

20] Laws were made to be broke

21] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

22] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

23] Mercy surpasses justice

24] He may find fault that cannot mend

25] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

26] No pain, no cure

27] Of two evils choose the lesser

28] No answer is also an answer

29] Two heads are better than one

30] The righteous man sins before an open chest

31] The owl thinks her own young fairest

32] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

33] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

34] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

35] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

36] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

37] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

38] Step by step the ladder is ascended

39] We live laws, not by examples

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

41] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

42] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

43] Children should be seen and not heard

44] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

45] Children learn to creep ere they can go

46] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

47] Call a spade a spade

48] Death does not recognize strength

49] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

50] Custom reconciles us to everything

51] Every shoe fits not every foot

52] A bully never grows up.

53] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

54] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

55] Have two strings to your bow

56] It is misery enough to have once been happy

57] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

58] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

59] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

60] They are rich who have true friends

61] Long life has long misery

62] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

63] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

64] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

65] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

66] Don’t cry stinking fish

67] Every medal has its reverse

68] Actions speak louder than words

69] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

70] All are not saints that go to church

71] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

72] Be careful to whom you give

73] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

74] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

75] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

76] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

77] The great would have none great, and the little all little

78] Comparisons are odious

79] Cast not the first stone.

80] Delay is the antidote of anger

81] No pain, no cure

82] Extremes meet

83] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

84] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

85] No feast lasts forever.

86] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

87] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

88] Weak things united become strong

89] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

90] Patient waiters are no losers

91] Penny wise, pound foolish

92] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

93] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

94] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

95] He would command must serve

96] What’s done is done

97] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

98] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

99] Little things please little minds

100] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens