Famous Proverbs

1] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

2] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

3] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

4] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

5] Good fences make good neighbours

6] Once bitten, twice shy.

7] Better be alone than in bad company

8] Of two evils choose the lesser

9] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

10] The beaten road is the safest

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

12] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

13] One potter envies another

14] A fool believes everything

15] One master in a house is enough

16] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

17] The Pen is mightier than the sword

18] Each day brings its own bread

19] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

20] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

21] Barking dogs seldom bite

22] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

23] Stolen goods never thrive

24] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

25] Mercy surpasses justice

26] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

27] Appetite comes with eating

28] Tell a lie and stick to it.

29] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

30] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

31] Of evil manners, spring good laws

32] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

33] One man’s means another man’s poison

34] Pleasant hours fly past

35] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

36] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

37] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

38] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

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

40] Let sleeping dogs lie

41] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

42] Poverty is not a crime

43] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

44] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

45] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

46] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

47] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

48] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

49] In fair weather prepare for foul

50] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

51] Seeing is believing

52] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

53] God provides for him that trusts

54] What must be must be

55] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

56] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

57] Success makes a fool seem wise.

58] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

59] Money is the sinews of war

60] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

61] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

62] Gold may be bought too dear

63] The age of miracles is past

64] Never spur a willing horse

65] Man punishes the action but God the intention

66] The best things come in small packages

67] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

68] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

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

70] Vice makes virtue shine

71] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

72] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

73] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

74] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

75] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

76] No pains, no gains

77] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

78] Fortune is blind

79] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

80] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

81] There is no fool like an old fool

82] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

83] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

84] No man can serve two masters

85] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

86] Better belly burst than good meat lost

87] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

88] Grasp all, lose all

89] That which Nature paints never fades

90] Forgive and forget

91] Never do evil that good may come of it

92] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

93] All things that great men do are well done

94] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

95] Laughter makes good blood

96] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

97] Virtue is the only true nobility

98] Penny and penny laid up will be many

99] Don’t play with edged tools

100] The cowl does not make the monk.