Famous Proverbs

1] It is never too late to mend

2] Experience is the best teacher

3] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

4] Covetousness brings nothing home

5] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

6] Love delights in praise

7] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

8] The labourer is worthy of his hire

9] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

10] Needs must when the devil drives

11] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

12] No man is infallible

13] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

14] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

15] It is misery enough to have once been happy

16] A bad excuse is better than none at all

17] A piece of churchyard fits every body

18] It is well to live that one may learn

19] Of three main roads, take the middle one

20] Don’t kick against the pricks

21] The grace of God enough

22] Great actions speak minds

23] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

24] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

25] He is rich that has few wants

26] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

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

28] Beauty fades like a flower.

29] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

30] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

31] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

32] No man is wise at all times

33] Repentance comes too late

34] All lay loads on a willing horse

35] Love will go through stone walls

36] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

37] A goose drinks as much as gander

38] Time has wings

39] Dumb dogs are dangerous

40] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

41] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

42] Every oak has been an acorn

43] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

44] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

45] The poor suffer all the wrong

46] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

47] Friends are thieves of time

48] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

49] The good is often the enemy of the best

50] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

51] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

52] He who considers too much will perform little.

53] Mirth is the sugar of life

54] Great talkers are never great doers

55] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

56] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

57] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

58] The hand that gives, gathers

59] A single rose does not mean spring

60] A jack of all traders is master of none

61] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

62] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

63] Nothing seek, nothing find

64] Garbage in, garbage out

65] The pot calls the kettle black

66] There are two sides to every question

67] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

68] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

69] From small beginnings come great things

70] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

71] Business is business

72] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

73] Shrouds have no pockets

74] White there’s life there’s hope

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

76] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

77] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

78] Fool’s haste is no speed

79] The dog is a lion in his own house

80] Eat to live and not live to eat.

81] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

82] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

83] It is no use crying over spilt milk

84] Many eyes upon the king

85] Every law has a loophole

86] A closed mouth catches no files

87] Trust not the many-minded populace

88] What is deferred is not abandoned

89] He that knows little often repeats it

90] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

91] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

92] Take things as you find them

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

94] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

95] That which Nature paints never fades

96] A good tongue is a good weapon

97] Take things as they come

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

99] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

100] There is death in the pot.