Famous Proverbs

1] A good wife makes a good husband

2] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

3] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

4] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

5] One kindness is the price of another

6] Dying men speak true

7] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

8] A golden key opens every door

9] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

10] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

11] Even Homer sometimes nods

12] Pat any man and dust will fly

13] Better to wear out than rust out

14] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

15] Men are not to be measured in inches

16] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

17] Old habits die hard

18] Better an open enemy than a false friend

19] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

20] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

21] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

22] Law makers should not be law breakers

23] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

24] Better ask the way than go astray

25] History repeats itself

26] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

27] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

28] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

29] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

30] The greatest talkers are the least doers

31] A man of courage never wants weapons

32] One man’s loss is another’s gain

33] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

34] Rust wastes more than use

35] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

36] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

37] He that is absent is soon forgotten

38] Many a little makes a mickle

39] A willful man will have his way

40] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

41] The first step is the hardest

42] We live by laws, not by examples

43] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

44] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

45] Ambition makes people diligent

46] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

47] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

48] The bait hides the hook

49] A great city, a great solitude

50] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

51] Stolen sweets are sweeter

52] Familiarity breeds contempt

53] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

54] No day so clear but has dark clouds

55] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

56] It takes a wise man to be a fool

57] All griefs with bread are less

58] Adam’s ale is the best brew

59] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

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

61] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

62] Possibilities are infinite

63] He knows most who speaks least

64] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

65] Light grows the burden which is well borne

66] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

67] Much learning makes men mad

68] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

69] Man proposes, God disposes

70] He that burns most, shines most

71] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

72] Anything will fit a naked man.

73] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

74] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

75] Repentance comes too late

76] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

77] Much science, much sorrow

78] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

79] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

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

81] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

82] Possibilities are infinite

83] A beggar can never be bankrupt

84] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

85] The longest night will have an end

86] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

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

88] As you sow, so shall you reap

89] Rome was not built in a day

90] Acorns were good till bread was found

91] Praise is always pleasant

92] New meat begets a new appetite

93] Either mend or end

94] When bees area old, they yield n honey

95] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

96] Silence is golden

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

98] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

99] The weeds overgrow the corn.

100] There is no accounting for tastes