Famous Proverbs

1] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

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

3] There is many a true word spoken in jest

4] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

5] Better to ask the way than go astray.

6] It is not work that kills but worry

7] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

8] How forceful are right words

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

10] The good die young.

11] Small is the seed of every greatness

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

13] The darkest place is under the candlestick

14] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

15] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

16] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

17] New lords, new laws

18] It is too late to look up after you have collided

19] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

20] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

21] There’s a time and place for everything

22] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

23] So many men, so many opinions

24] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

25] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

26] You never know what you can do till you try

27] There are spots even in the sun

28] Money makes the man

29] Covetousness brings nothing home

30] A joke’s a very serious thing

31] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

32] What must be must be

33] Nothing crave, nothing have

34] Fortune is blind

35] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

36] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

37] No news is good news

38] Between two stools you fall to the ground

39] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

40] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

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

42] Everything would fain live

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

44] Dumb men get no lands

45] Don’t meet trouble half-way

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

47] Patient men with the day.

48] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

49] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

50] Money is the root of all evil

51] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

52] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

53] At a good bargain thinks twice

54] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

55] No misfortune will go on forever

56] If the cap fits, wear it

57] Custom makes all things easy

58] Time flies

59] Well begun is half done.

60] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

61] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

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

63] It is more pain to do nothing than something

64] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

65] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

66] It is ill striving against the stream

67] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

68] Money is the sinew of affairs

69] He who excuses himself accuses himself

70] He that wants health wants all

71] Never judge from appearances

72] Birds once snared fear all bushes

73] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

74] Words bind men

75] They can do least two boast loudest

76] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

77] Pleasing ware is half sold

78] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

79] Cheap is dear in the long run.

80] Adventures are to be adventurous

81] Great actions speak minds

82] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

83] What’s in a name?

84] Not even Hercules could contend against two

85] Every Jack must have his Jill

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

87] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

88] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

89] Come with the wind, got with the water

90] He that talks much, errs much

91] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

92] Little things are pretty

93] An Englishman’s home is his castle

94] A good wife makes a good husband

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

96] One is never too old to learn

97] He who hesitates is lost

98] Familiarity breeds contempt

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

100] Set a wolf to keep the sheep