Famous Proverbs

1] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

2] Ill luck is good for something

3] Money is the sinews of war

4] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

5] Words are but wind

6] There’s no great loss without some gain

7] Wise men silent, fools talk

8] He may find fault that cannot mend

9] Where there is peace, there is blessing

10] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

11] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

12] Two heads are better than one

13] One lie makes many

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

15] Six feet of earth make all men equal

16] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

17] Safety lies in the middle course

18] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

19] Still waters run deep

20] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

21] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

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

23] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

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

25] No choice amongst stinking fish

26] One father is more than a hundred school masters

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

28] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

29] Will is no skill

30] Novelty always appears handsome

31] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

32] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

33] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

34] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

35] Hard words break no bones

36] What is a workman without his tools?

37] All our pomp the earth covers

38] Better to ask the way than go astray.

39] Judge not of men and things at first sight

40] The game is not worth the candle

41] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

42] Patient waiters are no losers

43] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

44] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

45] Laws were made to be broke

46] Cheap is dear in the long run.

47] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

48] Company in misery makes it light

49] Pitchers have ears

50] He that sows virtue reaps fame

51] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

52] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

53] Pleasing ware is half sold

54] The leopard cannot change its spots

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

56] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

57] Appearances are deceptive

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

59] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

60] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

61] Poverty parts friendship

62] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

63] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

64] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

65] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

66] Love is sweet torment

67] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

68] Forewarned is forearmed

69] Truth is mighty and will prevail

70] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

71] Too far east is west

72] The day obliterates the promise of the might

73] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

74] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

75] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

76] Never say die

77] Everything is good in its season

78] Kindness lies in one side of the house

79] Of two evils choose the lesser

80] Every man has his price

81] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

82] Better unborn than untaught

83] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

84] There’s a time and place for everything

85] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

86] Wash your dirty linen at home

87] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

88] Rats know the ways of rats

89] Money talks

90] East or west, home is best

91] The highest tree has the greatest fall

92] The falling drops hollow the stone

93] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

94] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

95] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

96] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

97] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

98] Money has no smell

99] Waste makes wants

100] Nothing costs so much as what is given us