Famous Proverbs

1] Sweet are the uses of adversity

2] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

3] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

4] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

5] No road is long with good company

6] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

7] Prospect is often better than possession

8] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

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

10] Poverty parts friendship

11] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

12] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

13] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

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

15] Charity begins at home.

16] One must howl with the wolves

17] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

18] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

19] There’s always room at the top

20] The weakest goes to the wall

21] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

22] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

23] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

24] Hear twice before you speak once

25] Liars should have good memories

26] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

27] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

28] God made the country ,and man made the town

29] It will be the same a hundred years hence

30] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

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

32] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

33] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

34] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

35] It is too late to call back yesterday

36] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

37] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

38] Life is short and time is swift

39] Christmas comes but once a year

40] He that is absent is soon forgotten

41] The bait hides the hook

42] Choose thy company before thy drink

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

44] Forewarned is forearmed

45] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

46] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

47] Quickly come, quickly go

48] A knave and a fool never take thought

49] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

50] There is many a true word spoken in jest

51] The axe falls on a straight tree first

52] They also serve who only stand and wait

53] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

54] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

55] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

56] The best fish swim near the bottom

57] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

58] No man is content with his lot

59] Never buy a pig in a poke

60] A good dog deserves a good bone

61] Little things are pretty

62] He that has plenty of goods will have more

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

64] Much learning makes men mad

65] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

66] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

67] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

68] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

69] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

70] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

71] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

72] One thief will not rob another

73] Money talks

74] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

75] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

76] An old man is a bed full of bones

77] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

78] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

79] Clothes do not make the man

80] Lookers-on see most of the game

81] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

82] Never buy a pig in a poke

83] There is nothing like being on the safe side

84] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

85] Better children weep than old men

86] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

87] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

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

89] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

90] Every medal has two sides

91] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

92] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

93] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

94] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

95] He that repairs not a part, builds all

96] Through obedience learn to command.

97] Men are blind in their own cause

98] He that eats least eats most

99] The slowest barker is the surest biter

100] A closed mouth catches no files