Famous Proverbs

1] A useful trade is a mine of gold

2] Necessity is mother of invention

3] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

4] Men are not angles

5] Hard cases make bad law

6] Virtue is the only true nobility

7] Nothing crave, nothing have

8] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

9] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

10] One is what one eats

11] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

12] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

13] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

14] He is lifeless that is faultless

15] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

16] Friends are thieves of time

17] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

18] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

19] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

20] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

21] Excessive happiness produces pain

22] Great hopes make great men

23] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

24] Tigers and deer do not over.

25] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

26] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

27] The word is far him who has patience

28] There is none misfortune cannot reach

29] Four eyes see better than two.

30] Open confession is good for the soul

31] All’s fish that comes to the net

32] The money you refuse will never do you good

33] Men are not angles

34] Wife and Children are bills of charges

35] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

36] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

37] Love delights in praise

38] Lavishness is not generosity

39] Give credit where credit is due

40] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

41] Alms never make poor

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

43] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

44] As soon as there is life there is danger

45] One fool praises another

46] Never spur a willing horse

47] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

48] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

49] Paddle your own canoe

50] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

51] First thrive then wive

52] Human blood is all of a colour

53] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

54] The early bird catches the worm

55] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

56] Strike while the iron is hot

57] Patience is a plaster for all sores

58] There is no fool like an old fool

59] When the cat is away, the mice will play

60] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

61] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

62] One master in a house is enough

63] Let not your tongue run at rover

64] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

65] Knowledge is power

66] To err is human

67] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

68] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

69] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

70] A joke’s a very serious thing

71] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

72] Misfortune does not always come to injure

73] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

74] He that lives ill, fear follows him

75] No convenience without its inconvenience

76] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

77] The course of true love never did run smooth

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

79] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

80] All things are possible with god

81] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

82] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

83] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

84] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

85] Quietness is a great treasure

86] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

87] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

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

89] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

90] The lion had need of the mouse

91] All things are difficult before they are easy

92] Better ask the way than go astray

93] Old foxes want no tutors

94] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

95] It’s dogged that does it

96] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

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

98] Slow and steady wins the race

99] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

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