Famous Proverbs

1] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

2] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

3] Let not your tongue run at rover

4] One fool praises another

5] One man’s means another man’s poison

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

7] Half a word is enough for a wise man

8] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

9] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

10] Care brings grey hair.

11] A willful man will have his way

12] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

13] Master easy, servant slack

14] A constant guest is never welcome

15] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

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

17] The bait hides the hook

18] Delay is the antidote of anger

19] All heiresses are beautiful.

20] Better an apple given than eaten

21] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

22] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

23] When the word is out it belongs to another

24] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

25] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

26] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

27] Fingers were made before forks

28] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

29] When wine sinks, words swim

30] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

31] Let the buyer beware

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

33] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

34] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

35] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

36] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

37] Mercy surpasses justice

38] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

39] Never say die

40] Four eyes see more than two

41] Kingdoms divided soon fall

42] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

43] Second thoughts are best

44] It is a shame to be shameless

45] They that dance must pay the fiddler

46] Borrowed garments never fit well

47] Every why has a wherefore

48] Jack is as good as his master

49] All glory comes from daring to begin

50] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

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

52] In indecision itself, grief is present.

53] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

54] Make haste slowly

55] It is never too late to mend

56] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

57] Erring is not heating

58] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

59] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

60] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

61] An ill tongue may do much

62] Not even Hercules could contend against two

63] Don’t ride the high horse

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

65] The tongue talks at the heads cost

66] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

67] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

68] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

69] Saying is one thing, and doing another

70] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

71] Small is beautiful

72] Men are not to be measured in inches

73] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

74] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

75] He gives twice who gives quickly

76] Great trees keep down the little ones

77] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

78] An old dog barks not in vain

79] The envious man shall never want woe

80] A good garden may have some ill weeds

81] Misery loves company.

82] Never too late to learn

83] No hair so small but has his shadow

84] The devil knows many things because he is old

85] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

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

87] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

88] Good broth may be made in an old pot

89] Children speak only words they have heard.

90] No man is infallible

91] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

92] All’s fair in love and war

93] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

94] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

95] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

96] Don’t take your harp to the party

97] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

98] No feast lasts forever.

99] Where there is whispering there is lying

100] He that cannot ask, cannot live