Famous Proverbs

1] Never too late to repent

2] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

3] Moderation in all things

4] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

5] A stitch in time saves nine

6] There are two sides to every question

7] Men do more things through habit than reason

8] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

9] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

10] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

11] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

12] Sooner begun, sooner done

13] No news is good news

14] New brooms sweep clean

15] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

16] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

17] Nothing succeeds like success

18] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

19] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

20] Everyone to his taste

21] It costs more to do ill than to do well

22] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

23] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

24] Rich folk have many friends

25] The money you refuse will never do you good

26] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

27] All griefs with bread are less

28] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

29] Men are blind in their own cause

30] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

31] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

32] He is wise who looks ahead

33] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

34] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

35] Full of courtesy, full of craft

36] True gold is not transformed by fire

37] Idle folks have the least leisure

38] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

39] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

40] Variety is charming

41] Seeing is believing

42] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

43] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

44] A wicked man is his own hell

45] The sun shines upon all alike.

46] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

47] No man is born wise or learned

48] Every dog has his (its) day

49] A soft answer turns away wrath

50] Idleness is the root of all evil

51] Death alone can kill hope

52] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

53] All’s fair in love and war

54] Patience is a plaster for all sores

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

56] Soft fire makes sweet malt

57] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

58] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

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

60] A strong town is not won in an hour

61] The good die young.

62] If you would be well served, serve yourself

63] Riches along make no men happy

64] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

65] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

66] Exchange is no robbery

67] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

68] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

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

70] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

71] One sheep follows another

72] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

73] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

74] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

75] Things are only worth one makes them worth

76] He that pities another remembers himself

77] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

78] A good word stills great anger

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

80] Every light has its shadow

81] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

82] Flesh is frail

83] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

84] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

85] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

86] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

87] A bad excuse is better than none at all

88] There’s a black sheep in every flock

89] The pen is the tongue of the hand

90] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

91] Seeing is believing

92] No cross, no crown

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

94] They can do least two boast loudest

95] The darkest place is under the candlestick

96] Youth and age will never agree

97] Pleasing ware is half sold

98] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

99] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

100] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.