Famous Proverbs

1] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

2] Love delights in praise

3] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

4] Wash your dirty linen at home

5] The fairest flowers soonest fade

6] He is rich that has few wants

7] Through hardship to the stars

8] Nothing is so certain as death

9] No hair so small but has his shadow

10] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

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

12] What is a workman without his tools?

13] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

14] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

15] Adventures are to be adventurous

16] Money refused loses its brightness

17] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

18] First impressions are half the battle

19] Let sleeping dogs lie

20] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

21] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

22] Paddle your own canoe

23] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

24] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

25] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

26] Every man has his price

27] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

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

29] He travels the fastest who travels alone

30] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

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

32] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

33] Of two evils choose the lesser

34] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

35] Better eye sore than al blind

36] Self-praise is no recommendation

37] Poverty is not a crime

38] Black will take no other hue

39] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

40] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

41] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

42] A good conscience is a sure card

43] A change is as good as rest

44] Better children weep than old men

45] Fools live poor to die rich

46] If you want peace, prepare for war

47] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

48] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

49] A crust is better than no bread.

50] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

51] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

52] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

53] A good tongue is a good weapon

54] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

55] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

56] They are rich who have true friends

57] Don’t play with fire

58] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

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

60] You must grin and bear it

61] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

62] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

63] Some are wise and some are otherwise

64] Other times, other manners

65] There is no smoke without fire

66] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

67] A golden key opens every door

68] Those near the temple deride the gods

69] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

70] The highest branch is not the safest roost

71] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

72] He that knows little often repeats it

73] Fortune is blind

74] Example is better than precept

75] You never know what you can do till you try

76] If you have known one, you have known them all

77] A good beginning makes a good ending.

78] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

79] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

80] Clothes do not make the man

81] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

82] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

83] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

84] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

85] No road is long with good company

86] Findings are keepings

87] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

88] A traveller may lie with authority

89] Health without money is half an ague

90] Keep some till further more come

91] A fool always rushes to the fore.

92] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

93] He who owes is in all the wrong

94] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

95] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

96] Nearest the heart comes out first

97] Far from eye, far from heart

98] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

99] He that blows best, bears away the horn

100] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.