Famous Proverbs

1] Look before you leap

2] Too long burden makes weary bones

3] Misery loves company.

4] Conscience does make cowards of us all

5] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

6] Look at the bright side

7] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

8] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

9] He gives twice who gives quickly

10] Brevity is the soul of wit

11] Change of pasture makes fat calves

12] Necessity is a powerful weapon

13] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

14] One thief will not rob another

15] Example, is better than precept

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

17] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

18] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

19] A good dog deserves a good bone

20] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

21] A soft answer turns away wrath

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

23] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

24] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

25] You know what you can do till you try.

26] He that sows virtue reaps fame

27] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

28] Every may be has a may not be

29] Everyone to his taste

30] Well begun is half done.

31] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

32] Hitch your wagon to a star

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

34] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

35] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

36] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

37] Extremity of right is wrong

38] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

39] God is a sure paymaster

40] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

41] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

42] Practice is the science that gives confidence

43] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

44] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

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

46] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

47] Facts are stubborn things

48] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

49] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

50] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

51] Do right and fear no man

52] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

53] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

54] The biter is sometimes bit

55] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

56] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

57] Human blood is all of a colour

58] The best wine comes from an old vessel

59] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

60] Dirty water does not wash clean.

61] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

62] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

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

64] In haste is error

65] Men make houses, women make homes

66] Tomorrow never comes

67] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

68] Practice makes perfect

69] Plain dealing is best

70] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

71] A good marksman may miss

72] A fool believes everything

73] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

74] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

75] Prove your friend ere you have need

76] Life begins only in success

77] He that speaks not, God hears not

78] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

79] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

80] The highest branch is not the safest roost

81] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

82] One father is more than a hundred school masters

83] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

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

85] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

86] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

87] Black will take no other hue

88] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

89] Every man praises his own wares

90] No garden without its weeds.

91] What has been, may be

92] Respect is greater from a distance

93] Out of debt, out of danger

94] All lay loads on a willing horse

95] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

96] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

97] A good beginning is half the battle.

98] A change is as good as rest

99] Good words are worth much and cost little

100] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.