Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

2] Every oak has been an acorn

3] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

4] Every dog has his (its) day

5] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

6] He that eats least eats most

7] It is the unexpected that always happens

8] If one will not, another will

9] Handsome is as handsome does

10] Change brings life

11] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

12] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

13] Gold will not buy everything

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

15] Four eyes see better than two.

16] What is money to a cat?

17] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

18] Children should be seen and not heard

19] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

20] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

21] Care brings grey hair.

22] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

23] There are more men threatened than stricken

24] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

25] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

26] Take the will for the deed

27] He gives twice who gives quickly

28] The best fish swim near the bottom

29] One is never too old to learn

30] A bully is always a coward

31] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

32] The sun shines upon all alike.

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

34] What has been, may be

35] Extremity of right is wrong

36] The tongue stings

37] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

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

39] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

40] The king can do no wrong

41] Repentance is a bitter physic

42] An evil life is a kind of death.

43] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

44] Will is the cause of woe

45] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

46] Quietness is a great treasure

47] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

48] Thrift is a great revenue

49] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

50] The Pen is mightier than the sword

51] It never rains it pours

52] Sickness shows us what we are

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

54] The more wicked, the more lucky

55] Honesty is the best policy

56] Goodness is better than beauty

57] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

58] As you sow, so shall you reap

59] The first step is the hardest

60] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

61] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

62] Love can find a way

63] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

64] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

65] Honest is the best policy

66] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

67] Pursuits become habits

68] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

69] Penny wise, pound foolish

70] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

71] A little help is worth a deal of pity

72] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

73] A good wife makes a good husband

74] Don’t ride the high horse

75] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

76] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

77] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

78] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

79] Light grows the burden which is well borne

80] One sheep follows another

81] The best of friends must part

82] The first blow is half the battle

83] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

84] An angry man is not fit to pray

85] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

86] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

87] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

88] There is nothing like being on the safe side

89] Love is sweet torment

90] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

91] Weeds need no sowing

92] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

93] A living dog is better than a dead lion

94] The love of money is the root of all evil

95] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

96] Delays are not denials

97] There’s always room at the top

98] True gold is not transformed by fire

99] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

100] A kind heart loseth nought at last.