Famous Proverbs

1] Haste is of (or from) the devil

2] The best things are hard to come by.

3] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

4] Never grieve for what you cannot help

5] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

6] Good clothes open all doors

7] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

8] All for one, and one for all.

9] Don’t try to run before you walk

10] Parents are patterns

11] Great minds think alike

12] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

13] He that burns most, shines most

14] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

15] Leave well alone

16] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

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

18] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

19] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

20] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

21] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

22] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

23] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

24] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

25] A little body often harbours a great soul

26] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

27] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

28] Life is short and time is swift

29] What has been, may be

30] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

31] Error cannot be defended but by error

32] A bully is always a coward

33] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

34] He that lives ill, fear follows him

35] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

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

37] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

38] An old fox is not easily snared

39] The tongue stings

40] No like is the same.

41] An old ox makes a straight furrow

42] Too far east is west

43] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

44] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

45] What everybody says must be true

46] Wiles help weak folk

47] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

48] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

49] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

50] No choice amongst stinking fish

51] Travel broadens the mind

52] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

53] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

54] The road to hell is paved with good action

55] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

56] Honesty is the best policy

57] No man is wise at all times

58] A learned man has always riches in himself

59] Like mother, like daughter

60] The absent saint gets no candle

61] There is nothing lost by civility

62] As long lives a merry man as a sad

63] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

64] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

65] Suffering does not manifest itself

66] If today will not, tomorrow may

67] A living dog is better than a dead lion

68] The longest journey starts with a single step

69] A closed mouth catches no files

70] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

71] One master in a house is enough

72] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

73] Needs must when the evil drives

74] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

75] Lend never that thing you needed most

76] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

77] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

78] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

79] Old vessels must leak

80] Wise men propose, and fools determine

81] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

82] Exchange is no robbery

83] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

84] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

85] There is no accounting for tastes

86] A single rose does not mean spring

87] No flying without wings.

88] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

90] Self-praise is no recommendation

91] It is a shame to be shameless

92] In my own house, I am king

93] All is fair in love and war

94] Better a bare foot than none

95] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

96] Circumstances alter cases

97] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

98] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

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

100] Error cannot be defended but by error