Famous Proverbs

1] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

2] There is no place like home

3] Dirty water does not wash clean.

4] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

5] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

6] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

7] You cannot make a crab walk straight

8] Health and money go far

9] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

10] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

11] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

12] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

13] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

14] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

15] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

16] Love knows hidden paths

17] Every light has its shadow

18] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

19] Homer sometimes nods

20] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

21] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

22] Waste not, want not

23] Kind hearts are more than coronets

24] Nature is the true law

25] There is nothing that costs less than civility

26] Mirth without measure is madness

27] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

28] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

29] Nature abhors a vacuum

30] What costs little is little esteemed

31] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

32] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

33] He laughs best who laughs last

34] What the king wills, that the law wills

35] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

36] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

37] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

38] Wiles help weak folk

39] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

40] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

41] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

42] A little too late, is much too late

43] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

44] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

45] Might knows no right

46] Love and business teach eloquence

47] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

48] Variety is the spice of life

49] Bad luck often brings good luck

50] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

51] Love laughs at locksmiths

52] A man may bear till his back breaks

53] Failure teaches success

54] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

55] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

56] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

57] All our pomp the earth covers

58] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

59] Little and often fills the purse

60] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

61] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

62] Distance lends enchantment to the view

63] Good fame is better than a good face

64] Prospect is often better than possession

65] The eye is bigger than the belly

66] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

67] Don’t cry for the moon

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

69] He that seeks trouble never misses

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

71] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

72] A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

74] Once bitten, twice shy.

75] One thief will not rob another

76] It is well to live that one may learn

77] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

78] A friend in need is a friend indeed

79] Care is no cure

80] Fair face, foul heart

81] Too much money makes one mad

82] An open door may tempt a saint

83] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

84] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

85] The biter is sometimes bit

86] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

87] The child is father of the man

88] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

89] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

90] A man may learn wit every day.

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

92] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

93] He knows the water best who has waded through it

94] We are all Adam’s children

95] Nature is conquered by obeying her

96] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

97] Laughter makes good blood

98] Wife and Children are bills of charges

99] A stitch in time saves nine

100] Calamity is man’s true touchstone