Famous Proverbs

1] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

2] Circumstances alter cases

3] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

4] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

5] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

6] No man so good but another may be as good as he

7] Possibilities are infinite

8] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

9] Bold men have generous hearts

10] The best of men are but men at best.

11] Things are seldom what they seem.

12] There is no smoke without fire

13] Fear of death is worse than death itself

14] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

15] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

16] The end makes all equal

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

18] It takes two to make a quarrel

19] There is nothing new under the sun

20] Better children weep than old men

21] A bribe will enter without knocking

22] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

23] If one will not, another will

24] Gluttony kills more than the sword

25] The longest way round is the shortest way home

26] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

27] Children and chickens must be always picking

28] Better ask the way than go astray

29] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

30] What is the mother of industry

31] Money is the sinew of affairs

32] What’s done cannot be undone

33] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

34] Walls have ears

35] Children and fools have merry lives

36] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

37] A man may learn wit every day.

38] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

39] More haste, less speed

40] Opportunity makes the thief

41] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

42] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

43] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

44] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

45] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

46] He that promises too much means nothing

47] So many countries, so many customs

48] Now is now, and then was then

49] One may change the place but not the mind.

50] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

51] Change of pasture makes fat calves

52] Man does what he can, and God what he will

53] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

54] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

55] The best things in life are free

56] Think of ease, but work on.

57] Anger managers everything badly.

58] Charity excuseth not cheating.

59] You cannot unscramble eggs

60] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

61] Riches along make no men happy

62] Silence is also speech

63] III counsel mars all

64] The best go first

65] If you play with fire you get burnt

66] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

67] He thinks not well that thinks not again

68] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

69] Gold may be bought too dear

70] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

71] One must howl with the wolves

72] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

73] Vice makes virtue shine

74] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

75] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

76] Haste makes waste

77] Hope often deludes the foolish man

78] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

79] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

80] Empty vessels make the most noise

81] The more cost, the more honour

82] Moderation in all things

83] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

84] Beware of a silent man and still water

85] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

86] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

87] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

88] No man is a hero to his valet

89] Men are blind in their own cause

90] Better eye sore than al blind

91] That which Nature paints never fades

92] Who suffers much is silent

93] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

94] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

95] Without diligence, no prize

96] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

97] No garden without its weeds.

98] Health and wealth create beauty

99] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

100] Learn to walk before you run