Famous Proverbs

1] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

2] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

3] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

4] Give and take is fair play

5] Adventures are to be adventurous

6] Where there is peace, there is blessing

7] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

8] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

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

10] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

11] Poverty is the mother of crime

12] One father is more than a hundred school masters

13] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

14] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

15] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

16] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

17] A man’s mother is his other God

18] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

19] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

20] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

21] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

22] Faint heart never won fair lady

23] Harp not for ever on the same string

24] Great hopes make great men

25] The longest journey starts with a single step

26] Nature abhors a vacuum

27] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

28] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

29] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

30] Nothing succeeds like success

31] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

32] He that has plenty of goods will have more

33] The sun shines upon all alike.

34] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

35] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

36] Petty laws breed great crimes

37] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

38] The biter is sometimes bit

39] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

40] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

41] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

42] Creditors have better memories than debtors

43] First think, and then speak

44] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

45] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

46] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

47] One barber shaves another gratis

48] Extremes are dangerous

49] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

50] As soon as there is life there is danger

51] Slow but sure wins the race

52] He who last, laughs longest.

53] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

54] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

55] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

56] His own ingenuity pricks him.

57] The axe falls on a straight tree first

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

59] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

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

61] Judge not, that ye be not judged

62] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

63] He who wills the end, Wills the means

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

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

66] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

67] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

68] He that has good money, gives few alms

69] Good hand, good hire

70] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

71] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

72] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

73] Nothing crave, nothing have

74] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

75] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

76] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

77] Too much cunning undoes

78] Bear and forbear

79] Faint heart never won fair lady

80] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

81] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

82] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

83] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

84] The slowest barker is the surest biter

85] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

86] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

87] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

88] He that lives ill, fear follows him

89] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

90] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

91] A good wife makes a good husband

92] He knows most who speaks least

93] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

94] What is a workman without his tools?

95] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

96] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

97] Water is the king of food

98] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

99] Distance lends enchantment to the view

100] He who sows, trusts in God