Famous Proverbs

1] The best of friends must part

2] He that is absent is soon forgotten

3] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

4] God helps those who help themselves

5] Our own opinion is never wrong

6] The biter is sometimes bit

7] Few words are best

8] He is an ill husband who is not missed

9] One cannot put back the clock

10] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

11] Haste is of (or from) the devil

12] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

13] Where there’s a will there’s a way

14] A straight stick is crooked in water

15] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

16] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

17] Money is the only monarch

18] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

19] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

20] Don’t cry before you are hurt

21] Dreams go by contraries

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

23] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

24] One reason is as good as fifty

25] Man punishes the action but God the intention

26] Trusting often makes fidelity

27] Every bean has its black

28] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

29] Care killed the cat

30] He who touches pitch will be defiled

31] East or west, home is best

32] Pleasant hours fly past

33] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

34] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

35] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

36] A good name is better than a golden girdle

37] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

38] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

39] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

40] A true friend is forever a friend

41] He that desires but little has no deed of much

42] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

43] Silence gives (or means) consent

44] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

45] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

46] Least said, soonest mended

47] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

48] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

49] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

50] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

51] Do as you would be done by

52] Out of debt, out of danger

53] The more wicked, the more lucky

54] Laws were made to be broke

55] Men are blind in their own cause

56] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

57] A man of courage never wants weapons

58] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

59] Tell the truth and shame the devil

60] Beware of a silent man and still water

61] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

62] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

63] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

64] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

65] A word spoken is past recalling

66] Better children weep than old men

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

68] Prevention is better than cure

69] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

70] No man fears what he has seen grow

71] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

72] Love sees no fault

73] A good face is a letter of recommendation

74] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

75] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

76] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

77] A good lather is half the shave

78] Lose a leg rather than a life

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

80] The tongue talks at the heads cost

81] Jack is as good as his master

82] Success makes a fool seem wise.

83] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

84] One sword keeps another in the sheath

85] He that pities another remembers himself

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

87] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

88] He freezes who does not burn

89] The thread breaks where it is weakest

90] An oak is not felled at one stroke

91] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

92] No misfortune will go on forever

93] All is fair in love and war

94] Far from eye, far from heart

95] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

96] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

97] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

98] Like mother, like daughter

99] Be just before you are generous

100] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept