Famous Proverbs

1] Wiles help weak folk

2] One cannot love and be wise

3] He that pities another remembers himself

4] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

5] There is no smoke without fire

6] He that can stay. Obtains

7] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

8] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

9] Homer sometimes nods

10] Danger makes men devout

11] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

12] One may change the place but not the mind.

13] The best fish swim near the bottom

14] Take time by the forelock

15] He thinks not well that thinks not again

16] If anything can go wrong, it will

17] Excessive happiness produces pain

18] Necessity is a powerful weapon

19] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

20] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

21] A bully is always a coward

22] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

23] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

24] Poverty parts friendship

25] Money makes the man

26] Weak things united become strong

27] The eye is bigger than the belly

28] There are two sides to every question

29] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

30] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

31] Pitchers have ears

32] No misfortune will go on forever

33] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

34] A little learning is dangerous thing

35] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

36] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

37] For a web begun, God sends the thread

38] All roads lead to Rome

39] Honesty is the best policy

40] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

41] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

42] One barber shaves another gratis

43] An old man is a bed full of bones

44] Ale will make a cat speak

45] Grin and bear it

46] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

47] Quietness is a great treasure

48] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

49] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

50] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

51] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

52] Choose thy company before thy drink

53] Knowledge is power

54] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

55] Patience is a virtue

56] The axe falls on a straight tree first

57] Desires are nourished by delays

58] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

59] A fault confessed is half redressed

60] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

61] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

62] A man of courage never wants weapons

63] Dreams are lies

64] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

65] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

66] They brag most who can do least

67] Seek and you shall find

68] The word is far him who has patience

69] Ill comes often on the back worse

70] No man is wise at all times

71] Truth conquers all things

72] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

73] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

74] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

75] No remedy but patience

76] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

77] Might is right

78] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

79] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

80] Stolen goods never thrive

81] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

82] Variety is the spice of life

83] Take away fuel, take away flame

84] The unexpected always happens.

85] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

86] Delays are not denials

87] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

88] The best go first

89] When the word is out it belongs to another

90] Fine words dress ill deeds

91] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

92] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

93] Far fowls have fair feather

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

95] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

96] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

97] Much would have more

98] Truth is mighty and will prevail

99] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

100] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well