Famous Proverbs

1] Where there is peace, God is

2] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

3] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

4] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

5] No pains, no gains

6] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

7] There is nothing that costs less than civility

8] The good die young.

9] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

10] A parrot will only say what it is taught

11] Past cure, past care

12] In doing we learn.

13] Blood is thicker than water

14] The best go first

15] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

16] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

17] Facts are stubborn things

18] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

19] Wrong has no warrant

20] As long lives a merry man as a sad

21] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

22] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

23] Well begun is half done.

24] He is lifeless that is faultless

25] Wise men do not argue with idiots

26] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

27] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

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

29] A good tongue is a good weapon

30] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

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

32] Extremity of right is wrong

33] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

34] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

35] Other times, other manners

36] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

37] Spare the rod and spoil the child

38] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

39] As you brew, so shall you drink.

40] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

41] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

42] You know what you can do till you try.

43] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

44] A man’s mother is his other God

45] Well begun is half done.

46] Love will find a way

47] A word before is worth two behind

48] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

49] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

50] Virtue has all things in itself

51] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

52] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

53] Tigers and deer do not over.

54] He that praises himself, spatters himself

55] No one betrays himself by silence

56] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

57] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

58] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

59] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

60] No remedy but patience

61] Prospect is often better than possession

62] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

63] Frugality is the mother of virtue

64] Lovers are madmen

65] Patience is the remedy of the world

66] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

67] Better belly burst than good meat lost

68] Have two strings to your bow

69] There is no smoke without fire

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

71] Appearances are deceptive

72] All doors open to courtesy

73] Circumstances alter cases

74] They also serve who only stand and wait

75] There is no fool like an old fool

76] The good is often the enemy of the best

77] Never hit a man when he’s down

78] Walls have ears

79] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

80] There’s a time and place for everything

81] The thread breaks where it is weakest

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

83] Experience is the mother of wisdom

84] If you have known one, you have known them all

85] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

86] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

87] Every may be has a may not be

88] God’s lambs will play.

89] God provides for him that trusts

90] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

91] The more laws, the more offenders

92] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

93] Patience surpasses learning

94] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

95] What has been, may be

96] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

97] The falling drops hollow the stone

98] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

99] No tie can oblige the perfidious

100] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom