Famous Proverbs

1] It is too late to look up after you have collided

2] Old habits die hard

3] It is more blessed to give than to receive

4] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

5] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

6] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

7] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

8] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

9] Quickly come, quickly go

10] Live and Learn

11] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

12] Adam’s ale is the best brew

13] The weakest goes to the wall

14] Crowns have cares

15] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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

17] A friend in need is a friend indeed

18] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

19] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

20] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

21] Heaven helps those who help themselves

22] Charity begins at home.

23] A bad workman always blames his tools

24] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

25] All things are difficult before they are easy

26] You win some, you lose some

27] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

28] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

29] Youth and age will never agree

30] Repentance is a bitter physic

31] A good servant must have good wages

32] Even a worm will turn

33] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

34] He that talks much, errs much

35] Once a knave, always a knave

36] Death does not recognize strength

37] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

38] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

39] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

40] Look on the bright side

41] Take the tone of the company you are in

42] See how the wind blows

43] Like master, like man

44] The devil is not as black as he is painted

45] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

46] He who last, laughs longest.

47] Call no man happy till he is dead

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

49] The fairest silk is soonest stained

50] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

51] Silence never makes mistakes

52] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

53] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

54] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

55] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

56] A stitch in time saves nine

57] The early bird catches the worm

58] Money makes the man

59] He that desires but little has no deed of much

60] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

61] Diligence is the mother of good luck

62] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

63] He who teaches learns

64] Help a lame dog over a stile

65] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

66] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

67] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

68] Will is the cause of woe

69] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

70] Love me, love the crows on my roof

71] Man cannot live by bread alone

72] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

73] Great gain makes easy work

74] Hard words break no bones

75] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

76] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

77] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

78] Where there is whispering there is lying

79] Idleness is the root of all evil

80] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

81] Better late than never

82] Boys will be boys

83] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

84] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

85] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

86] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

87] There is no garden without its weeds

88] As you bake, so shall you eat.

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

90] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

91] All must be as God will

92] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

93] Ready money is ready medicine

94] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

95] Good counsel never comes amiss

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

97] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

98] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

99] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

100] That which proves too much proves nothing