Famous Proverbs

1] A man can die but once

2] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

3] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

4] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

5] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

6] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

7] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

8] Half a loaf is better than do bread

9] Manners and money make a gentleman

10] Ready money is a ready remedy

11] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

12] Content is more than a kingdom

13] The voice is the best music

14] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

15] Silence and thinking can no man offend

16] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

17] He has not lost all who has one cast left

18] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

19] A good paymaster never wants workmen

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

21] Love will go through stone walls

22] You never know your luck

23] Strike while the iron is hot

24] See how the wind blows

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

26] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

27] All things that great men do are well done

28] There is no place like home

29] A little help is worth a deal of pity

30] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

31] Idleness is the root of all evil

32] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

33] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

34] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

35] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

36] Everything must have a beginning

37] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

38] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

39] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

40] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

41] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

42] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

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

44] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

45] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

46] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

47] Early sow, early mow

48] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

49] Hear twice before you speak once

50] He stands not surely that never slips

51] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

52] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

53] Weeds need no sowing

54] What may be done at any time is done at no time

55] Few words are best

56] Revenge is sweet

57] Every may be has a may not be

58] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

59] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

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

61] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

62] Do it now

63] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

64] Health is not value till sickness comes

65] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

66] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

67] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

68] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

69] Step by step the ladder is ascended

70] Without diligence, no prize

71] One man sows and another reaps

72] The cobbler should stick to his last

73] Lose a leg rather than a life

74] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

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

76] A bad excuse is better than none at all

77] What is the mother of industry

78] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

79] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

80] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

81] No tie can oblige the perfidious

82] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

83] Far fowls have fair feather

84] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

85] Too much curiosity lost paradise

86] Often and little eating makes a man fat

87] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

88] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

89] Might knows no right

90] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

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

92] No pain, no cure

93] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

94] Practice what you preach

95] What’s done is done

96] Covetousness breaks the sack

97] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

98] No land without stones, or meat without bones

99] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

100] Wrong has no warrant