Famous Proverbs

1] Love sees no fault

2] It is never too late to mend

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

4] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

5] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

6] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

7] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8] No man can serve two masters

9] Good ware makes quick market

10] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

11] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

12] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

13] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

14] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

15] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

16] Acorns were good till bread was found

17] Better children weep than old men

18] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

19] All for one, and one for all.

20] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

21] Bind the sack before it be full

22] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

23] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

24] No man is wise at all times

25] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

26] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

27] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

28] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

29] Better no doctor at all than three.

30] Great hopes make great men

31] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

32] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

33] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

34] What is a workman without his tools?

35] Live and let live

36] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

37] Look at the bright side

38] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

39] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

40] What is a workman without his tools?

41] God is always on the side of the big battalions

42] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

43] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

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

45] Sweet are the uses of adversity

46] All things require skills but an appetite

47] Fair without, false within

48] Half a loaf is better than do bread

49] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

50] Step by step the ladder is ascended

51] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

52] Call a spade a spade

53] Findings are keepings

54] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

55] It is good to follow the old fox

56] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

57] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

58] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

59] Conscience does make cowards of us all

60] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

61] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

62] Liars should have good memories

63] Better unborn than untaught

64] Have two strings to your bow

65] Work expands so as to fill the time available

66] Desires are nourished by delays

67] Better be alone than in bad company

68] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

69] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

70] Laughter makes good blood

71] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

72] Moderation in all things

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

74] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

75] Change of pasture makes fat calves

76] A short cut is often a wrong cut

77] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

78] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

79] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

80] Charity excuseth not cheating.

81] Variety is charming

82] A burnt child dreads the fire

83] What the king wills, that the law wills

84] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

85] What is word but wind?

86] A hedge between keeps friendship green

87] The first blow is half the battle

88] There’s a time and place for everything

89] An army marches on its stomach

90] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

91] Opportunity makes the thief

92] The thread breaks where it is weakest

93] A stitch in time saves nine

94] The money you refuse will never do you good

95] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

96] Virtue carries a lean purse

97] Fear of death is worse than death itself

98] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

99] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

100] A good horse cannot wear two saddles