Famous Proverbs

1] Possibilities are infinite

2] Long life has long misery

3] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

4] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

5] Silence never makes mistakes

6] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

7] Half a word is enough for a wise man

8] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

9] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

10] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

11] Friends are thieves of time

12] An oak is not felled at one stroke

13] He that speaks not, God hears not

14] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

15] Silence is a woman’s best garment

16] How forceful are right words

17] Practice makes perfect

18] Cheap is dear in the long run.

19] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

20] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

21] Marriage makes or mars a man

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

23] Waste makes wants

24] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

25] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

26] The Pen is mightier than the sword

27] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

28] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

29] Ambition makes people diligent

30] Words are but wind

31] Little things are pretty

32] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

33] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

34] Little pitchers have big ears.

35] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

36] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

37] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

38] He who leaps high must take a long run

39] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

40] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

41] A gift much expected is paid, not given

42] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

43] Idle folks lack no excuses

44] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

45] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

46] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

47] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

48] Empty vessels make the most sound

49] Dying men speak true

50] No hair so small but has his shadow

51] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

52] A friend in need is a friend indeed

53] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

54] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

55] He would command must serve

56] Of one ill come many

57] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

58] Take away fuel, take away flame

59] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

60] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

61] Tell a lie and stick to it.

62] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

63] There is none misfortune cannot reach

64] Fools rejoice at promises

65] Plain dealing is best

66] God is a sure paymaster

67] The greatest step is that out of doors

68] Don’t meet trouble half-way

69] He may find fault that cannot mend

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

71] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

72] What can’t be cured must be endured

73] If the cap fits, wear it

74] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

75] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

76] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

77] No one betrays himself by silence

78] Homer sometimes nods

79] Two blacks do not make a white

80] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

81] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

82] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

83] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

84] First catch your hare

85] He thinks not well that thinks not again

86] Care is no cure

87] Good fame is better than a good face

88] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

89] Diamond cuts diamond

90] Don’t play with edged tools

91] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

92] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

93] Children and chickens must be always picking

94] The hand that gives, gathers

95] He freezes who does not burn

96] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

97] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

98] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

99] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

100] Pleasant hours fly past