Famous Proverbs

1] Too long burden makes weary bones

2] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

3] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

4] Do not wear out your welcome

5] An oak is not felled at one stroke

6] Every medal has two sides

7] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

8] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

9] Like will to like

10] Dirty water does not wash clean.

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

12] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

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

14] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

15] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

16] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

17] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

18] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

19] Example is the greatest of all seducers

20] Every why has a wherefore

21] Gold is tried in the fire

22] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

23] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

24] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

25] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

26] Silence gives (or means) consent

27] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

28] The best things come in small packages

29] Money is the sinews of war

30] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

31] Procrastination is the thief of time

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

33] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

34] Blue are the far away hills

35] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

36] Beware of him who makes thee presents

37] Work expands so as to fill the time available

38] All are not saints that go to church

39] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

40] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

41] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

42] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

43] Hungry bellies have no ears

44] Misery loves company.

45] Sickness soaks the purse

46] Nothing comes from nothing

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

48] Rip not up old sores

49] There is no time like the present

50] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

51] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

52] A light purse makes a heavy heart

53] Many drops make a shower

54] Children and fools have merry lives

55] It is best to be on the safe side

56] Of three main roads, take the middle one

57] God is always on the side of the big battalions

58] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

59] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

60] You can’t take it with you when you die

61] Divine grace was never slow

62] Silence and thinking can no man offend

63] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

64] A healthy man is a successful man

65] Every man must carry his own cross

66] A miss is as good as a mile

67] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

68] Opportunity makes the thief

69] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

70] A bribe will enter without knocking

71] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

72] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

73] Take things as you find them

74] You must grin and bear it

75] The cowl does not make the monk.

76] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

77] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

78] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

79] Homer sometimes nods

80] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

81] A fool and his money are soon parted

82] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

83] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

84] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

85] Light burden I heavy if far borne

86] Let bygones be bygones

87] In haste is error

88] He that will thrive must rise at five

89] Give a loan and buy quarrel

90] First catch your hare

91] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

92] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

93] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

94] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

95] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

96] Threatened folk live long

97] Company in misery makes it light

98] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

99] When meat is in anger is out

100] He who seizes the right moment is the right man