Famous Proverbs

1] Let the buyer beware

2] A man may learn wit every day.

3] Bold men have generous hearts

4] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

5] Good counsel never comes amiss

6] If you want peace, prepare for war

7] The best of friends must part

8] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

9] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

10] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

11] A man can die but once

12] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

13] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

14] First impressions are the most lasting

15] None so deaf as those that will not hear

16] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

17] Love me, love my dog

18] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

19] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

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

21] Forgive and forget

22] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

23] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

24] Never spend your money before you have it

25] Grief pent up will break the heart

26] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

27] Never buy a pig in a poke

28] Great talkers are never great doers

29] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

30] Enough is as good as a feast

31] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

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

33] Common fame is seldom to blame

34] God made the country ,and man made the town

35] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

36] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

37] Children and fools have merry lives

38] Do not triumph before the victory

39] He that wants health wants all

40] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

41] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

42] He would command must serve

43] Don’t put the cart before the horse

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

45] It costs more to do ill than to do well

46] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

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

48] He that will thrive must rise at five

49] Too much curiosity lost paradise

50] Money refused loses its brightness

51] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

52] The belly carries the legs

53] Never too late to learn

54] A hungry man smells meat afar off

55] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

56] Tomorrow is another day

57] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

58] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

59] Every commodity has its discommodity

60] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

61] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

62] Like mistress, like maid

63] Trust not the many-minded populace

64] No day so clear but has dark clouds

65] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

66] First come, first served

67] More haste, less speed

68] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

69] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

70] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

71] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

72] All for one, and one for all.

73] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

74] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

75] Money has no smell

76] A word before is worth two behind

77] It is good fishing in troubled waters

78] The road to hell is paved with good action

79] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

80] Where there is whispering there is lying

81] Great hopes make great men

82] Great gain makes easy work

83] No news is good news

84] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

85] Shrouds have no pockets

86] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

87] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

88] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

89] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

90] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

91] Love will go through stone walls

92] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

93] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

94] One fool praises another

95] Marriages are made in heaven

96] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

97] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

98] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

99] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

100] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved