Famous Proverbs

1] Small is the seed of every greatness

2] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

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

4] Better eye sore than al blind

5] One lie makes many

6] Wash your dirty linen at home

7] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

8] One must be a servant before one can be a master

9] Everything would fain live

10] Good ware makes quick market

11] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

12] When meat is in anger is out

13] What is worse than ill luck?

14] Crows are all completely black

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

16] Nature surpasses art

17] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

18] Great trees keep down the little ones

19] Charity excuseth not cheating.

20] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

21] You cannot make bricks without straw

22] Trust not the many-minded populace

23] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

24] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

25] Gold may be bought too dear

26] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

27] Look before you leap

28] The good intention excuses the bad action

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

30] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

31] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

32] The ant had wings to her hurt

33] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

34] Dead men tell no tales

35] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

36] The garment worn determines how one is served

37] Covetousness breaks the sack

38] Homer sometimes nods

39] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

40] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

41] Silence is also speech

42] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

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

44] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

45] Better an apple given than eaten

46] One master in a house is enough

47] The labourer is worthy of his hire

48] Second thoughts are best

49] Knowledge is power

50] Anything will fit a naked man.

51] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

52] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

53] Good hand, good hire

54] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

55] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

56] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

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

58] Every path has a puddle

59] Words bind men

60] Do as I say, not as I do

61] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

62] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

63] Diligence is the mother of good luck

64] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

65] The axe falls on a straight tree first

66] He knows the water best who has waded through it

67] Ready money is a ready remedy

68] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

69] Better ask the way than go astray

70] Live and let live

71] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

72] All roads lead to Rome

73] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

74] Lavishness is not generosity

75] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

76] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

77] Sooner begun, sooner done

78] Trusting often makes fidelity

79] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

80] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

81] One barber shaves another gratis

82] Change of pasture makes fat calves

83] Mirth without measure is madness

84] The early man ever borrows from the late man

85] He that has no money needs no purse

86] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

87] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

88] It takes two to make a quarrel

89] The wish is father to the thought

90] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

91] At open doors, dogs come in

92] Rats know the ways of rats

93] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

94] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

95] All are not saints that go to church

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

97] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

98] Nature hates all sudden changes

99] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

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