Famous Proverbs

1] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

2] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

3] First think, and then speak

4] A good wife is a good prize

5] Master easy, servant slack

6] Fair play’s a jewel

7] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

8] An empty sack cannot stand upright

9] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

10] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

11] Every light has its shadow

12] Too far east is west

13] Love conquers all

14] Debt is an evil conscience

15] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

16] Good fences make good neighbours

17] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

18] Never grieve for what you cannot help

19] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

20] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

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

22] Much science, much sorrow

23] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

24] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

25] Don’t play with fire

26] Judge not, that ye be not judged

27] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

28] It takes two to make a quarrel

29] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

30] Fool’s haste is no speed

31] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

32] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

33] No tie can oblige the perfidious

34] Dead men tell no tales

35] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

36] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

37] Leave well alone

38] All meat pleases not all mouths

39] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

40] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

41] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

42] A good beginning makes a good ending.

43] A good conscience is a sure card

44] Good hand, good hire

45] None so busy as those who do nothing.

46] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

47] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

48] A scalded cat fears hot water.

49] Live and let live

50] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

51] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

52] Wife and Children are bills of charges

53] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

54] From small beginnings come great things

55] Cast not the first stone.

56] Morning dreams come true

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

58] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

59] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

60] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

61] Practice makes perfect

62] We live laws, not by examples

63] Change brings life

64] Love is without reason

65] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

66] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

67] There is no tree but bears some fruit

68] It is never too late to mend

69] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

70] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

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

72] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

73] A scalded cat fears hot water.

74] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

75] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

76] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

77] Do unto others as they should do unto you

78] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

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

80] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

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

82] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

83] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

84] Ambition loses many a man

85] Fine feathers make fine birds.

86] Little things are great to little men

87] Distance lends enchantment to the view

88] Not even Hercules could contend against two

89] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

90] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

91] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

92] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

93] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

94] The longest journey starts with a single step

95] There is many a true word spoken in jest

96] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

97] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

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

99] Much law but little justice

100] The more a man dreams, the less he believes