Famous Proverbs

1] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

2] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

3] Old foxes want no tutors

4] A good face is a letter of recommendation

5] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

6] Innocence is no protection

7] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

8] Example, is better than precept

9] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

10] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

11] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

12] Often and little eating makes a man fat

13] Things past cannot be recalled

14] What is worth doing is worth doing well

15] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

16] Men are blind in their own cause

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

18] Tigers and deer do not over.

19] The wisest of the wise may err.

20] Flesh is frail

21] Tempt not a desperate man

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

23] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

24] Better to wear out than rust out

25] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

26] Judge not of men and things at first sight

27] Learn not and know not

28] One lie makes many

29] No man is his craft’s master the first day

30] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

31] Judge not, that ye be not judged

32] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

33] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

34] More than enough is too much

35] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

36] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

37] Much would have more

38] Ill news comes unsent for.

39] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

40] When in doubt, do nothing

41] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

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

43] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

44] In everything consider the end

45] Make hay while the sun shines

46] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

47] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

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

49] The dog that fetches, will carry.

50] Virtue joints man to god

51] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

52] No feast lasts forever.

53] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

54] Love me, love my dog

55] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

56] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

57] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

58] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

59] Everything must have a beginning

60] He who touches pitch will be defiled

61] Rome was not built in a day

62] The dog that fetches, will carry.

63] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

64] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

65] He that repairs not a part, builds all

66] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

67] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

68] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

69] A closed mouth catches no files

70] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

71] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

72] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

73] A wise man hears one word and understands two

74] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

75] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

76] The best is often the enemy of the good

77] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

78] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

79] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

80] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

81] First come, first served

82] No sweet without sweat

83] Wise men propose, and fools determine

84] The pen is the tongue of the hand

85] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

86] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

87] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

88] It is more blessed to give than to receive

89] Men are blind in their own cause

90] No man can serve two masters

91] All lay loads on a willing horse

92] Wedlock is padlock

93] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

94] Life is not all beer and skittles

95] A man with no hands is given a ring.

96] Ready money is ready medicine

97] He that praises himself, spatters himself

98] Slow and steady wins the race

99] A wicked man is his own hell

100] Health and wealth create beauty