Famous Proverbs

1] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

2] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

3] Words and feathers the wind carries away

4] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

5] Eat to live and not live to eat.

6] There is a great difference between words and deeds

7] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

8] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

9] No tie can oblige the perfidious

10] Waste is not grandeur

11] Poverty is the mother of crime

12] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

13] Nature hates all sudden changes

14] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

15] When in doubt, do nothing

16] Everything comes to him who waits

17] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

18] Two heads are better than one

19] There is no fool like an old fool

20] He that knows little often repeats it

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

22] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

23] Dying is as natural as living

24] You can’t clap with one hand

25] Time and tide wait for no man

26] Valour delights in the test

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

28] It is ill striving against the stream

29] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

30] The road to hell is paved with good action

31] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

32] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

33] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

34] They brag most who can do least

35] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

36] The ant had wings to her hurt

37] He who does no good, does evil enough

38] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

39] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

40] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

41] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

42] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

43] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

44] Care killed the cat

45] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

46] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

47] Better to wear out than rust out

48] Every why has a wherefore

49] Hunger breaks stone walls

50] Intimacy lessens fame

51] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

52] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

53] A house divided against itself cannot stand

54] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

55] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

56] Hunger is the teacher of many

57] All’s fish that comes to the net

58] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

59] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

60] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

61] Don’t tell tales out of school

62] Art improves Nature

63] Frugality is the mother of virtue

64] Evil to him who evil thinks.

65] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

66] A wicked man is his own hell

67] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

68] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

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

70] First thrive then wive

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

72] He that lives ill, fear follows him

73] Great talkers are never great doers

74] God helps those who help themselves

75] What has been, may be

76] Where there is peace, there is blessing

77] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

78] The exception proves the rule

79] The first step is the only difficulty

80] Good words are worth much and cost little

81] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

82] Custom reconciles us to everything

83] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

84] Blue are the far away hills

85] A man without a wife is but half a man

86] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

87] The best wine comes from an old vessel

88] The axe falls on a straight tree first

89] Truth is stranger than fiction

90] None but the brave deserves the fair

91] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

92] Every groom is a king at home

93] None so blind as those who will not see

94] A hedge between keeps friendship green

95] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

96] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

97] Innocence is no protection

98] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

99] He who considers too much will perform little.

100] An old fox is not easily snared