Famous Proverbs

1] The best things carried to excess are wrong

2] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

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

4] Health without money is half an ague

5] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

6] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

7] He who considers too much will perform little.

8] Gold is tried in the fire

9] Cut your coat according to your cloth

10] All heiresses are beautiful.

11] Even water has its ebb and flow

12] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

13] Experience must be bought

14] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

15] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

16] None so busy as those who do nothing.

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

18] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

19] The thread breaks where it is weakest

20] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

21] Truth is stranger than fiction

22] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

23] Procrastination is the thief of time

24] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

25] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

26] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

27] Weak things united become strong

28] Like will to like

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

30] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

31] Never grieve for what you cannot help

32] Past cure, past care

33] Better late than never, but better never late

34] You never know your luck

35] New lords, new laws

36] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

37] No man can serve two masters

38] Keep something for a rainy day

39] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

40] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

41] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

42] Hunger is sharper than the sword

43] Four eyes see better than two.

44] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

45] A scalded cat fears hot water.

46] There is nothing like being on the safe side

47] Better an apple given than eaten

48] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

49] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

50] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

51] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

52] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

53] What has been, may be

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

55] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

56] First creep, then walk

57] Bind the sack before it be full

58] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

59] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

60] Nearest the heart comes out first

61] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

62] First creep, then walk

63] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

64] The first blow is half the battle

65] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

66] A good tongue is a good weapon

67] All covet all lose.

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

69] Like master, like man

70] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

71] The world is full of fools

72] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

73] The end crowns the work.

74] Hitch your wagon to a star

75] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

76] When you do not know what to do – wait.

77] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

78] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

79] Lend never that thing you needed most

80] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

81] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

82] Every flow must have its ebb

83] What is the mother of industry

84] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

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

86] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

87] In my own house, I am king

88] Big fish eat little fish

89] Better be alone than in bad company

90] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

91] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

92] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

93] A piece of churchyard fits every body

94] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

95] Don’t ride the high horse

96] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

97] It is no use crying over spilt milk

98] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

99] A good name is better than a golden girdle

100] Every may be has a may not be