Famous Proverbs

1] He that sows virtue reaps fame

2] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

3] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

4] A light purse makes a heavy heart

5] A wise man hears one word and understands two

6] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

7] Learning is the eye of the mind

8] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

9] Soon hot, soon cold

10] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

11] No honest man ever repented his honesty

12] After the extreme of cold comes spring

13] The labourer is worthy of his hire

14] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

15] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

16] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

17] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

18] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

19] Practice what you preach

20] Fair play’s a jewel

21] Nothing crave, nothing have

22] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

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

24] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

25] Idle folks have the least leisure

26] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

27] Of one ill come many

28] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

29] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

30] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

31] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

32] Manners make the man

33] A black hen lays a white egg

34] Vice makes virtue shine

35] Truth is god’s daughter

36] The greatest step is that out of doors

37] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

38] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

39] Debt is an evil conscience

40] The tongue talks at the heads cost

41] Never too late to late to repent

42] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

43] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

44] Self-praise is no recommendation

45] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

46] Better at home than a mile from it

47] Dying men speak true

48] He that brings good news, knocks hard

49] The day obliterates the promise of the might

50] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

51] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

52] Money refused loses its brightness

53] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

54] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

55] What is the mother of industry

56] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

57] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

58] A man may bear till his back breaks

59] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

60] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

61] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

62] Common fame is seldom to blame

63] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

64] Appearances are deceptive

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

66] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

67] It is ill jesting with edged tools

68] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

69] Kindness lies in one side of the house

70] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

71] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

72] Even silence may be eloquent

73] The belly carries the legs

74] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

75] First think, and then speak

76] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

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

78] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

79] Virtue joints man to god

80] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

81] Nature surpasses art

82] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

83] Beware of no man more than himself

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

85] No one betrays himself by silence

86] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

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

88] He that speaks not, God hears not

89] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

90] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

91] The end makes all equal

92] Still waters run deep

93] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

94] Revenge is sweet

95] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

96] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

97] There is no royal road to learning

98] Empty vessels make the most sound

99] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

100] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting