Famous Proverbs

1] A fool and his money are soon parted

2] Revenge never repairs an injury

3] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

4] Better bend than break

5] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

6] One must howl with the wolves

7] They that dance must pay the fiddler

8] You cannot unscramble eggs

9] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

10] A word spoken is past recalling

11] When wine sinks, words swim

12] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

13] Learn not and know not

14] A bad padlock invites a picklock

15] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

16] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

17] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

18] A bad workman always blames his tools

19] Trust not the many-minded populace

20] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

21] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

22] Better no doctor at all than three.

23] He is lifeless that is faultless

24] Better bend than break

25] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

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

27] Moderation in all things

28] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

29] Through hardship to the stars

30] Live not to eat, but eat to live

31] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

32] He that obey cannot command

33] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

34] Delays are not denials

35] Kindness lies in one side of the house

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

37] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

38] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

39] They also serve who only stand and wait

40] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

41] He knows most who speaks least

42] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

43] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

44] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

45] Desire beautifies what is ugly

46] Slow but sure wins the race

47] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

48] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

49] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

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

51] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

52] Now is now, and then was then

53] You may have too much of a good thing

54] Give and spend, and God will send

55] The voice is the best music

56] In doing we learn.

57] Wishes can never fill a sack

58] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

59] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

60] You win some, you lose some

61] Live and let live

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

63] He that praises himself, spatters himself

64] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

65] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

66] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

67] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

68] Bad excuses are worse than none.

69] The course of true love never did run smooth

70] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

71] The hand that gives, gathers

72] What is the mother of industry

73] Busiest men find the most time

74] They brag most who can do least

75] All lay loads on a willing horse

76] Well begun is half done.

77] He that does most at once, does least

78] Let us do evil that good may come

79] All things are possible with god

80] Past cure, past care

81] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

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

83] Ambition loses many a man

84] Half a loaf is better than do bread

85] A hungry man is angry man

86] Variety takes away satiety

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

88] That which proves too much proves nothing

89] No man is content with his lot

90] Slow help is no help

91] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

92] Little things please little minds

93] Exchange is no robbery

94] Everything must have a beginning

95] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

96] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

97] You cannot make bricks without straw

98] Our own opinion is never wrong

99] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

100] You may have too much of a good thing