Famous Proverbs

1] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

2] One is never too old to learn

3] Water is the king of food

4] Still waters run deep

5] It is as natural to die as to be born

6] A little too late, is much too late

7] Every path has a puddle

8] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

9] Life is not all beer and skittles

10] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

11] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

12] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

13] He who begins many things, finishes but few

14] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

15] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

16] Needs must when the evil drives

17] An evil life is a kind of death.

18] Health and wealth create beauty

19] Diamond cuts diamond

20] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

21] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

22] Work won’t kill but worry will.

23] Don’t kick against the pricks

24] Birds once snared fear all bushes

25] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

26] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

27] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

28] Love will find a way

29] Precept begins, examples accomplish

30] Human blood is all of a colour

31] Beggars must not be choosers

32] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

33] No man so good but another may be as good as he

34] The course of true love never did run smooth

35] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

36] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

37] Despair gives courage to a coward

38] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

39] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

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

41] An angry man is not fit to pray

42] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

43] He who sows, trusts in God

44] A miss is as good as a mile

45] He that repairs not a part, builds all

46] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

47] One fool praises another

48] A man of courage never wants weapons

49] When the cat is away, the mice will play

50] Don’t take your harp to the party

51] He who touches pitch will be defiled

52] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

53] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

54] Honest is the best policy

55] No cross, no crown

56] The good is often the enemy of the best

57] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

58] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

59] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

60] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

61] Gifts blind the eyes.

62] A good lawyer must be a great liar

63] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

64] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

65] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

66] Laugh and grow fat

67] Make hay while the sun shines

68] A living dog is better than a dead lion

69] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

70] God makes the back for the burden

71] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

72] Spend and be free, but make no waste

73] Come with the wind, got with the water

74] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

75] No convenience without its inconvenience

76] Practice is the science that gives confidence

77] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

78] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

79] Easy come, easy go

80] First thrive then wive

81] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

82] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

83] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

84] High places have their precipices

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

86] Every dog is valiant at his won door

87] What has been, may be

88] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

89] He that brings good news, knocks hard

90] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

91] He that knows little often repeats it

92] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

93] Love conquers all

94] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

95] Pardon makes offenders

96] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

97] A little impatience will spoil great plans

98] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

99] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

100] There is no smoke without fire