Famous Proverbs

1] Numbers overcome the brave

2] Children should be seen and not heard

3] A man’s wealth is his enemy

4] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

5] Her that is down need fear no fall

6] Time flies

7] The early man ever borrows from the late man

8] No land without stones, or meat without bones

9] Look at the bright side

10] A man’s mother is his other God

11] No man fears what he has seen grow

12] Children should be seen and not heard

13] He that will thrive must rise at five

14] Don’t kick against the pricks

15] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

16] An ill tongue may do much

17] It is useless to flog a dead horse

18] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

19] Love is blind

20] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

21] All men are mortal

22] Big words seldom go with good deeds

23] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

24] Patient men with the day.

25] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

26] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

27] Plain dealing is best

28] Big fish eat little fish

29] The bait hides the hook

30] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

31] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

32] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

33] Wash your dirty linen at home

34] No road is long with good company

35] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

36] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

37] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

38] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

39] Heaven helps those who help themselves

40] A bad padlock invites a picklock

41] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

42] A piece of churchyard fits every body

43] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

44] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

45] His bark is worse than his bite

46] Rats know the ways of rats

47] What everybody says must be true

48] The mob tramples on the coward

49] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

50] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

51] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

52] Fools live poor to die rich

53] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

54] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

55] Money isn’t everything

56] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

57] Seek and you shall find

58] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

59] Kingdoms divided soon fall

60] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

61] There is none misfortune cannot reach

62] Bad excuses are worse than none.

63] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

64] Extremes are dangerous

65] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

66] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

67] Slow and steady wins the race

68] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

69] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

70] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

71] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

72] The devil looks after his own

73] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

74] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

75] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

76] A good wife is a good prize

77] Like father, like son

78] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

79] Weeds need no sowing

80] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

81] Threatened folk live long

82] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

83] A good dog deserves a good bone

84] It is good fishing in troubled waters

85] Sweet are the uses of adversity

86] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

87] He knows which side his bread is buttered

88] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

89] Long looked for, comes at last

90] There is no tree but bears some fruit

91] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

92] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

93] There is nothing that costs less than civility

94] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

95] The tongue talks at the heads cost

96] The tailor makes the man

97] Children and chickens must be always picking

98] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

99] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

100] Parents are patterns