Famous Proverbs

1] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

2] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

3] Dog does not eat dog

4] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

5] The bull must be taken by the horns

6] When angry, count a hundred

7] Health is great riches

8] Gold may be bought too dear

9] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

10] What will not money do?

11] The road to hell is paved with good action

12] Bad luck often brings good luck

13] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

14] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

15] First catch your hare

16] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

17] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

18] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

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

20] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

21] Do unto others as they should do unto you

22] The longest day must have an end

23] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

24] Muck and money go together

25] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

26] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

27] Gossiping and lying go together

28] Love is blind

29] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

30] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

31] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

32] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

33] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

34] Good luck beats early rising

35] Better the last smile than the first laugh

36] It is a great victory that comes without blood

37] Blue are the far away hills

38] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

39] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

40] The best of friends must part

41] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

42] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

43] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

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

45] Keep something for a rainy day

46] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

47] Without diligence, no prize

48] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

49] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

50] A good conscience is a sure card

51] None so blind as those who will not see

52] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

53] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

54] Have two strings to your bow

55] Faint heart never won fair lady

56] The child is father of the man

57] A great city, a great solitude

58] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

59] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

60] Mirth without measure is madness

61] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

62] Brevity is the soul of wit

63] Nearest the heart comes out first

64] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

65] Where there is peace, God is

66] Laughter makes good blood

67] Lend your money and lose a friend

68] A good name is a rich heritage

69] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

70] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

71] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

72] There is no time like the present

73] He that will thrive must rise at five

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

75] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

76] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

77] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

78] He who does no good, does evil enough

79] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

80] What must be must be

81] A miss is as good as a mile

82] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

83] Creditors have better memories than debtors

84] From word to deed is a great space

85] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

86] He who has seen little marvels much

87] Wink at small faults

88] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

89] He that is born a fool is never cured

90] Ignorance is the peace of life

91] He that knows little often repeats it

92] The golden age was never the present age

93] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

94] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

95] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

96] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

97] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

98] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

99] Every bean has its black

100] Flesh is frail