Famous Proverbs

1] Little by little and bit by bit.

2] Exchange is no robbery

3] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

4] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

5] Error cannot be defended but by error

6] Never spur a willing horse

7] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

8] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

9] The good is often the enemy of the best

10] Good ware makes quick market

11] Better learn late than never

12] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

13] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

14] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

15] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

16] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

17] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

18] A man can die but once

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

20] No land without stones, or meat without bones

21] Brevity is the soul of wit

22] Wash your dirty linen at home

23] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

24] Abundance, like want, ruins many

25] Long life has long misery

26] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

27] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

28] Desert and reward seldom keep company

29] What is the mother of industry

30] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

31] No tie can oblige the perfidious

32] Patient waiters are no losers

33] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

34] No sweet without sweat

35] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

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

37] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

38] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

39] Barking dogs seldom bite

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

41] Half an egg is better than empty shell

42] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

43] Life is not all beer and skittles

44] You cannot serve God and Mammon

45] Beauty is but skin-deep

46] Kingdoms divided soon fall

47] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

48] Misfortune does not always come to injure

49] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

50] Don’t kick against the pricks

51] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

52] Every why has a wherefore

53] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

54] Intimacy lessens fame

55] United we stand, divided we fall

56] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

57] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

58] Mere wishes are silly fishes

59] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

60] The road to hell is paved with good action

61] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

62] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

63] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

64] It is never too late to mend

65] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

66] Give and take is fair play

67] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

68] The first step is the only difficulty

69] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

70] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

71] He that brings good news, knocks hard

72] Better to be safe than sorry.

73] Health and money go far

74] The beaten road is the safest

75] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

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

77] Too many cooks spoil the broth

78] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

79] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

80] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

81] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

82] Look before you leap

83] It is ill striving against the stream

84] A scalded cat fears hot water.

85] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

86] The mob has many heads but no brains

87] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

88] Misery loves company.

89] Work expands so as to fill the time available

90] Cheats never prosper

91] Every dog has his (its) day

92] Grasp all, lose all

93] There is many a true word spoken in jest

94] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

95] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

96] Shrouds have no pockets

97] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

98] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

99] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

100] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.