Famous Proverbs

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

2] There are more men threatened than stricken

3] Waste makes wants

4] Heaven helps those who help themselves

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

6] All good things must come to an end

7] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

8] Riches along make no men happy

9] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

10] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

11] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

12] The devil dances in an empty pocket

13] The highest tree has the greatest fall

14] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

15] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

16] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

17] We don’t get something for nothing

18] Take away fuel, take away flame

19] Custom makes all things easy

20] Patience surpasses learning

21] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

22] A man in debt is caught in a net

23] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

24] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

25] More haste, less speed

26] A good beginning makes a good ending.

27] Books and friends should be few but good

28] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

29] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

30] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

31] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

32] Love is sweet torment

33] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

34] The mean is the best

35] Quietness is a great treasure

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

37] Poverty parts friendship

38] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

39] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

40] Truth conquers all things

41] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

42] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

43] None so busy as those who do nothing.

44] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

45] Come with the wind, got with the water

46] Every light has its shadow

47] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

48] The voice is the best music

49] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

50] Men are not angles

51] Every man has his price

52] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

53] New brooms sweep clean

54] Dead dogs bark not

55] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

56] Business is business

57] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

58] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

59] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

60] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

61] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

62] The resolved mind has no cares

63] His bark is worse than his bite

64] See how the wind blows

65] The sun shines upon all alike.

66] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

67] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

68] Love will go through stone walls

69] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

70] Repentance comes too late

71] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

72] He that is born a fool is never cured

73] Hunger is sharper than the sword

74] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

75] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

76] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

77] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

78] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

79] Necessity breaks iron

80] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

81] There is no time like the present

82] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

83] Kingdoms divided soon fall

84] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

85] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

86] If anything can go wrong, it will

87] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

88] A little help is worth a deal of pity

89] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

90] Enough is enough

91] Think of ease, but work on.

92] Never do things by halves

93] Good ware makes quick market

94] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

95] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

96] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

97] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

98] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

99] Extremes meet

100] Nothing ventured, nothing gained