Famous Proverbs

1] Now is now, and then was then

2] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

3] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

4] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

5] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

6] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

7] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

8] The greatest step is that out of doors

9] A fault confessed is half redressed

10] Too long burden makes weary bones

11] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

12] Misfortune does not always come to injure

13] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

14] He who does no good, does evil enough

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

16] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

17] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

18] At a good bargain thinks twice

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

20] Work won’t kill but worry will.

21] One kindness is the price of another

22] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

23] God sends cold after Clothes

24] Better children weep than old men

25] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

26] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

27] Be careful to whom you give

28] Better be born lucky than wise.

29] A word is enough to the wise

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

31] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

32] Out of debt, out of danger

33] A good paymaster never wants workmen

34] The best things come in small packages

35] Bad news travels fast

36] Many words, many buffets

37] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

38] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

39] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

40] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

41] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

42] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

43] A black hen lays a white egg

44] The more you have the more you want

45] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

46] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

47] Even water has its ebb and flow

48] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

49] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

50] Possibilities are infinite

51] What can’t be cured must be endured

52] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

53] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

54] Busiest men find the most time

55] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

56] Don’t cry before you are hurt

57] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

58] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

59] One thief will not rob another

60] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

61] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

62] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

63] Moderation in all things

64] The owl thinks her own young fairest

65] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

66] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

67] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

68] Of three main roads, take the middle one

69] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

70] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

71] There is a great difference between words and deeds

72] He that has a wife, has strife

73] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

74] The resolved mind has no cares

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

76] We shall lie all alike in our graves

77] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

78] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

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

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

81] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

82] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

83] All is fair in love and war

84] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

85] Experience is the best teacher

86] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

87] Poverty parts friendship

88] There are more ways to the wood than one.

89] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

90] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

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

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

93] One fool praises another

94] Bad excuses are worse than none.

95] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

96] Talk much end err much

97] A hedge between keeps friendship green

98] An empty sack cannot stand upright

99] One is what one eats

100] Union is strength.