Famous Proverbs

1] Do right and fear no man

2] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

3] It is easier to pull down than to build

4] When the word is out it belongs to another

5] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

6] Better an apple given than eaten

7] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

8] Wine is the best broom for trouble

9] You must grin and bear it

10] Honour is the reward of virtue

11] Save your breath to cool the porridge

12] The rich knows not who is his friend

13] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

14] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

15] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

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

17] Appearances are deceptive

18] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

19] Sorrow will pay no debt

20] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

21] The hand that gives, gathers

22] There is honour among thieves

23] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

24] It’s a long lane that has no turning

25] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

26] Like father, like son

27] Money can influence even the spirits

28] Petty laws breed great crimes

29] The word is far him who has patience

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

31] No man is indispensable

32] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

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

34] A beggar can never be bankrupt

35] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

36] Abundance, like want, ruins many

37] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

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

39] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

40] We live laws, not by examples

41] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

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

43] Don’t try to run before you walk

44] Don’t play with fire

45] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

46] Might overcome right.

47] The envious man shall never want woe

48] Time has wings

49] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

50] Spread the table, and contention will cease

51] No news is good news

52] Few words are best

53] Few words are best

54] All roads lead to Rome

55] He that does most at once, does least

56] Fools rejoice at promises

57] Fair face, foul heart

58] Long life has long misery

59] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

60] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

61] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

62] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

63] Best is cheapest

64] Dogs bark as they are bred.

65] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

66] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

67] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

68] You can’t take it with you when you die

69] Hard cases make bad law

70] Opportunity makes the thief

71] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

72] Seeing is believing

73] No flying without wings.

74] Experience is the mother of wisdom

75] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

76] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

77] Even silence may be eloquent

78] No man is his craft’s master the first day

79] A man’s mother is his other God

80] There is a black sheep in every flock

81] Nature hates all sudden changes

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

83] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

84] Ill news comes unsent for.

85] Be still and have thy will

86] Share and share alike

87] We shall lie all alike in our graves

88] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

89] He who serves is not free

90] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

91] Every beginning is hard

92] Out of sight, out of mind

93] The pot calls the kettle black

94] What can’t be cured must be endured

95] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

96] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

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

98] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

99] An old dog barks not in vain

100] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard