Famous Proverbs

1] Man cannot live by bread alone

2] Good counsel never comes amiss

3] The end crowns the work.

4] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

5] Success makes a fool seem wise.

6] A good garden may have some ill weeds

7] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

8] Never spend your money before you have it

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

10] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

11] Seek and you shall find

12] The borrower is servant to the lender

13] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

14] When in doubt, do nothing

15] A mouse may help a lion

16] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

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

18] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

19] Penny wise, pound foolish

20] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

21] He who teaches learns

22] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

23] There is nothing new under the sun

24] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

25] Walls have ears

26] Nearest the heart comes out first

27] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

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

29] Where there’s muck, there’s money

30] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

31] Misery loves company.

32] All things are easy, that are done willingly

33] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

34] Strike while the iron is hot

35] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

36] You must grin and bear it

37] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

38] Names and natures do often agree

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

40] Don’t put the cart before the horse

41] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

42] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

43] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

44] Every man praises his own wares

45] Wink at small faults

46] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

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

48] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

49] He who leaps high must take a long run

50] Money is the sinew of affairs

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

52] All that glitters is not gold

53] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

54] The highest tree has the greatest fall

55] Better be a fool than a knave

56] It is more pain to do nothing than something

57] Take the will for the deed

58] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

59] The bull must be taken by the horns

60] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

61] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

62] There is a great difference between words and deeds

63] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

64] What costs little is little esteemed

65] Dumb men get no lands

66] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

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

68] Where there is no trust there is no love

69] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

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

71] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

72] The more wicked, the more lucky

73] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

74] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

75] A little is better than none

76] He that has no money needs no purse

77] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

78] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

79] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

80] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

81] Charity excuseth not cheating.

82] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

83] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

84] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

85] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

86] If today will not, tomorrow may

87] Weeds need no sowing

88] Give credit where credit is due

89] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

90] There is no rose without a thorn

91] A jest breaks no bones

92] Our own opinion is never wrong

93] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

94] A good beginning is half the battle.

95] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

96] In doing we learn.

97] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

98] Nearest the heart comes out first

99] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

100] Life is short and time is swift