Famous Proverbs

1] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

2] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

3] Everything in moderation.

4] God arms the harmless

5] If you want peace, prepare for war

6] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

7] Be careful to whom you give

8] Despair gives courage to a coward

9] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

10] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

11] Hard cases make bad law

12] Praise is always pleasant

13] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

14] The money you refuse will never do you good

15] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

16] There is many a true word spoken in jest

17] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

18] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

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

20] Great minds think alike

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

22] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

23] Think of ease, but work on.

24] Through obedience learn to command.

25] The early bird catches the worm

26] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

27] What has been, may be

28] There is none misfortune cannot reach

29] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

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

31] No man is content with his lot

32] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

33] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

34] One can’t help many, but many can help one

35] Ambition loses many a man

36] There is death in the pot.

37] He who never was sick dies the first fit

38] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

39] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

40] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

41] Do as say, not as I do

42] Practice what you preach

43] Even a worm will turn

44] Crime does not pay

45] You never know what you can do till you try

46] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

47] Never too late to repent

48] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

49] Flesh is frail

50] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

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

52] No land without stones, or meat without bones

53] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

54] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

55] That which Nature paints never fades

56] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

57] It is easy to be wise after the event

58] Dead men don’t bite

59] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

60] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

61] A bribe will enter without knocking

62] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

63] Much science, much sorrow

64] When the word is out it belongs to another

65] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

66] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

67] Wake not a sleeping lion

68] Many hands make light work

69] Light grows the burden which is well borne

70] In haste is error

71] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

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

73] It will be the same a hundred years hence

74] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

75] Grin and bear it

76] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

77] There is no place like home

78] True gold is not transformed by fire

79] Manners and money make a gentleman

80] No man limps because another is hurt

81] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

82] A good tongue is a good weapon

83] He that is absent is soon forgotten

84] A monk can’t shave his own head

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

86] Every medal has its reverse

87] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

88] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

89] He that seeks trouble never misses

90] Empty vessels make the most sound

91] Between two stools you fall to the ground

92] He would command must serve

93] Give credit where credit is due

94] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

95] A light purse makes a heavy heart

96] Idleness is the root of all evil

97] Men are not to be measured in inches

98] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

99] Lovers are madmen

100] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string