1. A
bird in hand is better than two in a bush
2. All
that glitters is not gold
3. Action
speaks louder than words
4. A
Black Plum is as Sweet as a White one
5. A
hungry man is an angry man
6. A
little learning is a dangerous thing
7. The
pot called the kettle black
8. I
have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as my self
9. No
man can be wise on an empty stomach
10. Neither
a borrower nor a lender be
11. Give
a dog a bad name and hang him
12. Necessity
is the mother of invention
13. Lend
your cars to all, your tongue a few
14. No
man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money
15. Nothing
succeeds like success
16. Necessity
knows no bounds
17. Nothing
venture, nothing have
18. Our
sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought
19. One
man's meat is another man's poison.
20. One
must be poor to know the luxury of giving
21. One
is as young as one feels
22. Only
the wearer knows where the shoe pinches
23. Old age hath its victories no less renowned than youth
24. Poverty is the man of ill-health
25. Parents these days scarcely bring up children, they
finance them
26. Politeness costs nothing and gains everything
27. Present joys are sweeter for past pains
28. Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower
29. Prevention is better than cure
30. Perfection is attained by slow degrees
31. Penny wise pound foolish
32. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war
33. Physician, heal thyself.
34. Perseverance is the very hinge of all virtues
35. Patriotism is not enough
36. Riches are for Spending
37. Revenge is a kind of wild Justice
38. Rome was not built in a day
39. A rolling stone gathers no moss
40. A stitch in the saves nine
41. A man is usually known by the books he heads as well
as company he keeps for there is a companionship of books as well s of
men
42. A bad workman always blames his tools
43. As the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue
44. A peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate
purpose of the busy
45. All great truths begin as blasphemies
46. A fool sees not the same tree as a wise man does
47. As you sow, so shall you reap
48. Appearances are always deceptive
49. All Art is Useless
50. An unpleasant neither
51. A bachelor is a misfit in society
52. A higher standard of living does not means necessarily
a happier life
53. Art is an expression of personality
54. An adventure is an inconvenience rightly understood
55. A drowning man catches at a straw
56. Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty
57. Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven
58. Books are no substitute for experience
59. Beggars should not be choosers
60. Burdens become light when cheerfully borne
61. Black is Beautiful
62. Beauty is but skin deep
63. Barking dogs seldom bite
64. Charity begins at home
65. Cowards die many times before their death, The valiant
never taste of death but once
66. Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtues
67. Can man be free if woman be a slave ?
68. Comparisons are odious
69. Character is destiny
70. Courtesy costs us nothing
71. Democracy is government of the people - mostly fools,
by and for some other people - most knaves
72. Disadvantages of being a bachelor
73. Humour is the instinct for taking pains playfully
74. Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on this
principle is not an honest man
75. He makes no friend who never made a foe
76. He that leaves nothing to chance will do few things
ill, but he will do very few things
77. Haste Makes Waste
78. He that had wife and children hath given hostage to
fortune
79. He prayeth best who loveth best
80. Houses should be built to live in and not to look on
81. Humour is the salt of life
82. He laughs best, who laughs last
83. Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about
women
84. Errors, like straw, upon the surface flow. He that
would search for pearls must dive below
85. Every revolution was first a thought is one man's mind
86. Experience is the best of all School Masters
87. Every do has his day
88. Every cloud has a silver lining
89. Frailty, thy name is woman
90. Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals
91. Failure are the pillars of success
92. Formula for happiness: a good bank account, a good
cook, a good digestion
93. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures
94. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
95. Fashions in dress are much less harmful than intellectual
fashions.
96. Flattery brings friends, truth enemies
97. Great man have always scorned great recompenses
98. Liberty cannot exist without discipline
99. Laugh and be fat
100. Life indeed would be dull, if there were no difficulties.
