Famous Proverbs

1] Look at the bright side

2] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

3] No man limps because another is hurt

4] No wrong without a remedy

5] Once a use and ever a custom

6] Weak things united become strong

7] Take the tone of the company you are in

8] The race is got by running

9] Corn him well and he will work better

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

11] Hard words break no bones

12] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

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

14] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

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

16] Don’t take your harp to the party

17] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

18] Keep some till further more come

19] Worse things happen at sea

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

21] Death alone can kill hope

22] The Pen is mightier than the sword

23] When the word is out it belongs to another

24] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

25] He who pays the piper calls the tune

26] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

27] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

28] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

29] The good die young.

30] Easy come, easy go

31] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

32] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

33] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

34] Many a true word is spoken in jest

35] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

36] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

37] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

38] The devil looks after his own

39] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

40] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

41] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

42] Don’t kick against the pricks

43] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

44] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

45] Good to begin well, better to end well.

46] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

47] Time flies

48] The mob has many heads but no brains

49] Many hands make light work

50] Once a knave, always a knave

51] Better the last smile than the first laugh

52] Manners make the man

53] The company makes the feast

54] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

55] After a storm comes a calm

56] Plain dealing is a jewel

57] Love cannot be compelled

58] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

59] Of one ill come many

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

61] Adventures are to be adventurous

62] He thinks not well that thinks not again

63] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

64] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

65] Do not kick against the pricks

66] A good wife makes a good husband

67] No good building without a good foundation.

68] Adam’s ale is the best brew

69] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

70] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

71] Easier said than done

72] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

73] Work expands so as to fill the time available

74] The labourer is worthy of his hire

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

76] A hungry man is angry man

77] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

78] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

79] True doctrines require no miracles

80] Fear of death is worse than death itself

81] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

82] Hope keeps man alive

83] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

84] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

85] It is ill jesting with edged tools

86] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

87] A little body often harbours a great soul

88] Business is business

89] A prophet is without honour in his own country

90] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

91] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

92] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

93] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

94] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

95] A good word stills great anger

96] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

97] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

98] In peace, prepare for war

99] The cobbler should stick to his last

100] Novelty always appears handsome