Famous Proverbs

1] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

2] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

3] Waste is not grandeur

4] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

5] Wisdom is better than strength

6] Knowledge is power

7] God helps those who help themselves

8] While there is life, there is hope

9] A bad excuse is better than none at all

10] The sign brings customers

11] Every dog is a lion at home

12] It is best to be on the safe side

13] He knows the water best who has waded through it

14] Prevention is better than cure

15] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

16] Double charge will rive a cannon

17] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

18] After a storm comes a calm

19] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

20] Gluttony kills more than the sword

21] He that speaks well, flights well

22] There’s a black sheep in every flock

23] The falling drops hollow the stone

24] No hair so small but has his shadow

25] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

26] Discontent is the first step in progress

27] Like breeds like

28] Old foxes want no tutors

29] What may be done at any time is done at no time

30] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

31] It is well to live that one may learn

32] He that will thrive must rise at five

33] Nature is conquered by obeying her

34] First think, and then speak

35] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

36] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

37] A useful trade is a mine of gold

38] Marriage makes or mars a man

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

40] The king can do no wrong

41] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

42] The great fish eat up the small

43] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

44] No flying without wings.

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

46] Half a word is enough for a wise man

47] One master in a house is enough

48] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

49] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

50] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

51] Better an apple given than eaten

52] An Englishman’s home is his castle

53] All meat pleases not all mouths

54] Let like mate with like

55] What is a workman without his tools?

56] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

57] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

58] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

59] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

60] Laughter makes good blood

61] A knave and a fool never take thought

62] It will be the same a hundred years hence

63] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

64] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

65] A bad padlock invites a picklock

66] He who sows, trusts in God

67] Care brings grey hair.

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

69] The result justifies the deed

70] One of these days is none of these days

71] Who greases his way travels easily

72] Marriage makes or mars a man

73] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

74] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

75] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

76] Take heed is a fair thing

77] Variety is charming

78] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

79] Abundance, like want, ruins many

80] Work smart; don’t work hard

81] A joke’s a very serious thing

82] Marriages are made in heaven

83] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

84] Nature will have her course

85] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

86] One today is worth two tomorrows

87] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

88] Beauty draws more than oxen

89] In my own house, I am king

90] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

91] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

92] Those near the temple deride the gods

93] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

94] Forecast is better than work-hard

95] Every man must carry his own cross

96] Hasty work, double work,

97] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

98] Children learn to creep ere they can go

99] Easy come, easy go

100] Gluttony kills more than the sword