Famous Proverbs

1] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

2] Asking costs little

3] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

4] Make the best of a bad bargain

5] The longest day must have an end

6] A good wife makes a good husband

7] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

8] He that ventures not fails not.

9] Circumstances alter cases

10] Extremity of right is wrong

11] Great gain makes easy work

12] Art improves Nature

13] Money is the sinew of affairs

14] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

15] It is too late to call back yesterday

16] A fault confessed is half redressed

17] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

18] Ill gotten, ill spent

19] Children and fools have merry lives

20] The best wine comes from an old vessel

21] Better the last smile than the first laugh

22] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

23] Silence never makes mistakes

24] Small is beautiful

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

26] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

27] A living dog is better than a dead lion

28] Haste makes waste

29] Parents are patterns

30] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

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

32] An obedient wife commands her husband

33] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

34] No man so good but another may be as good as he

35] He that pities another remembers himself

36] Nature abhors a vacuum

37] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

38] Every law has a loophole

39] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

40] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

41] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

42] Crowns have cares

43] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

44] The tongue talks at the heads cost

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

46] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

47] One swallow does not make a summer

48] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

49] Give the devil his due

50] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

51] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

52] Go not to hell for company

53] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

54] He is wise who looks ahead

55] Enough is enough

56] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

57] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

58] He that is absent is soon forgotten

59] Our own opinion is never wrong

60] Ready money is a ready remedy

61] Soft fire makes sweet malt

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

63] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

64] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

65] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

66] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

67] Work smart; don’t work hard

68] If today will not, tomorrow may

69] Everything in moderation.

70] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

71] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

72] The fairest flowers soonest fade

73] Grin and bear it

74] Example is better than precept

75] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

76] Ill luck is good for something

77] Every little helps

78] Divide and rule

79] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

80] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

81] Take time by the forelock

82] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

83] What is the mother of industry

84] The hole calls the thief

85] The absent party is always to blame.

86] What is worth doing is worth doing well

87] Nature is content with little.

88] Fortune is blind

89] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

90] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

91] Go not to hell for company

92] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

93] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

94] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

95] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

96] Every may be has a may not be

97] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

98] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

99] A friend is easier lost than found

100] A man may bear till his back breaks