Famous Proverbs

1] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

2] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

3] Many a little makes a mickle

4] The garment worn determines how one is served

5] Love can find a way

6] Make the best of a bad job

7] Riches along make no men happy

8] Abundance, like want, ruins many

9] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

10] There’s a time and place for everything

11] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

12] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

13] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

14] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

15] Money is the sinews of war

16] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

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

18] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

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

20] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

21] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

22] A man can do no more than he can

23] When the word is out it belongs to another

24] There is death in the pot.

25] He stands not surely that never slips

26] Haste makes waste

27] Better belly burst than good meat lost

28] The company makes the feast

29] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

30] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

31] The more cost, the more honour

32] Time and tide wait for no man

33] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

34] Poverty is no sin

35] One cannot love and be wise

36] Money is the root of all evil

37] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

38] Tempt not a desperate man

39] Money isn’t everything

40] The fairest flowers soonest fade

41] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

42] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

43] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

44] The tailor makes the man

45] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

46] Names are debts

47] Great talkers are never great doers

48] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

49] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

50] What is a workman without his tools?

51] Between two stools you fall to the ground

52] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

53] Judge not the tree by its bark

54] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

55] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

56] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

57] Four eyes see more than two

58] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

59] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

60] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

61] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

62] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

63] A cat has nine lives

64] He who excuses himself accuses himself

65] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

66] Heaven helps those who help themselves

67] Variety is charming

68] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

69] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

70] Where god will help, nothing does harm

71] Little and often fills the purse

72] A fool may give a wise man counsel

73] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

74] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

75] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

76] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

77] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

78] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

79] Never too late to learn

80] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

81] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

82] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

83] A good name is better than riches

84] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

85] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

86] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

87] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

88] An empty sack cannot stand upright

89] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

90] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

91] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

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

93] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

94] He that desires but little has no deed of much

95] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

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

97] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

98] The more laws, the more offenders

99] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

100] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business