Famous Proverbs

1] Fear of death is worse than death itself

2] Young saint, old devil.

3] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

4] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

5] Know thyself

6] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

7] The receiver is as bad as the thief

8] Haste is of (or from) the devil

9] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

10] Desires are nourished by delays

11] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

12] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

13] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

14] Well begun is half done.

15] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

16] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

17] Do not kick against the pricks

18] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

19] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

20] Every dog is valiant at his won door

21] Much would have more

22] Thrift is a great revenue

23] What’s done cannot be undone

24] A black hen lays a white egg

25] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

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

27] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

28] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

29] Open a book and you profit by what you read

30] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

31] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

32] Let not your tongue run at rover

33] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

34] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

35] Old foxes want no tutors

36] Small is beautiful

37] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

38] The labour we delight in physics pain

39] A good name is sooner lost than won

40] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

41] One must howl with the wolves

42] They brag most who can do least

43] He that blows best, bears away the horn

44] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

45] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

46] Experience is good if not bought too dear

47] It is the first step that is troublesome

48] Good to begin well, better to end well.

49] Envy never enriched any man.

50] Without diligence, no prize

51] The devil knows many things because he is old

52] Love is blind

53] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

54] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

55] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

56] Bold men have generous hearts

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

58] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

59] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

60] Love delights in praise

61] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

62] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

63] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

64] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

65] No like is the same.

66] The grace of God enough

67] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

68] Nature is the true law

69] All is fair in love and war

70] The worse luck now, the better another time

71] You cannot have your cake and eat it

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

73] Prove your friend ere you have need

74] You must grin and bear it

75] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

76] The first step is the hardest

77] Children learn to creep ere they can go

78] Honest is the best policy

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

80] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

81] Patient waiters are no losers

82] An old man is a bed full of bones

83] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

84] One master in a house is enough

85] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

86] Beauty is only skin deep

87] At open doors, dogs come in

88] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

89] Beauty opens locked doors

90] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

91] Four eyes see more than two

92] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

93] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

94] Love your friend with his fault

95] Sooner begun, sooner done

96] He who never was sick dies the first fit

97] The lion had need of the mouse

98] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

99] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

100] He who touches pitch will be defiled