Famous Proverbs

1] A little is better than none

2] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

3] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

4] He has not lost all who has one cast left

5] Better to wear out than rust out

6] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

7] What is deferred is not abandoned

8] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

9] No man is born wise or learned

10] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

11] One hand washes the other

12] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

13] Time lost cannot be recalled

14] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

15] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

16] A true man and a thief think not the same

17] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

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

19] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

20] Health without money is half an ague

21] Prospect is often better than possession

22] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

23] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

24] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

25] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

26] Idle folks have the least leisure

27] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

28] Nature surpasses art

29] No day so clear but has dark clouds

30] Much learning makes men mad

31] One man’s loss is another’s gain

32] Slow and steady wins the race

33] He that has no money needs no purse

34] Dirty linen should be washed at home

35] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

36] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

37] The ass that brays most eats

38] He conquers who endures

39] You are never too old to learn

40] Call a spade a spade

41] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

42] Judge not the tree by its bark

43] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

44] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

45] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

46] A still tongue makes a wise head

47] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

48] Empty vessels make the most noise

49] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

50] Bread is the staff of life.

51] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

52] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

53] Never too late to repent

54] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

55] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

56] So many countries, so many customs

57] A little help is worth a deal of pity

58] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

59] Look on the bright side

60] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

61] A man without a wife is but half a man

62] The pen is the tongue of the hand

63] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

64] Might knows no right

65] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

66] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

67] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

68] Few words are best

69] Tell a lie and stick to it.

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

71] It is never too late to mend

72] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

73] Truth has no need of rhetoric

74] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

75] History repeats itself

76] Virtue is the only true nobility

77] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

78] Silence never makes mistakes

79] Asking costs little

80] Morning dreams come true

81] Many a true word is spoken in jest

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

83] Past cure, past care

84] Dying men speak true

85] Wrong has no warrant

86] We shall lie all alike in our graves

87] Safety lies in the middle course

88] There is no redemption from hell

89] Little wealth, little care

90] You can’t win them all

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

92] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

93] Too far east is west

94] Confess and be hanged

95] Numbers overcome the brave

96] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

97] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

98] Lend never that thing you needed most

99] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

100] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war