Famous Proverbs

1] Ambition loses many a man

2] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

3] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

4] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

5] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

6] Don’t take your harp to the party

7] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

8] Poor men’s words have little weight

9] Success has many friends

10] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

11] He is lifeless that is faultless

12] Friendship should not be all on one

13] The eye is bigger than the belly

14] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

15] First try and then trust

16] You never know what you can do till you try

17] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

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

19] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

20] Many drops make a shower

21] Cast not the first stone.

22] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

23] What is new cannot be true

24] Good broth may be made in an old pot

25] The more you have the more you want

26] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

27] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

28] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

29] A man can die but once

30] The wish is father to the thought

31] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

32] Learning is the eye of the mind

33] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

34] Never do evil that good may come of it

35] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

36] Eat to live and not live to eat.

37] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

38] Much babbling is not without offence

39] Self-praise is no recommendation

40] After the extreme of cold comes spring

41] The king can do no wrong

42] Every commodity has its discommodity

43] Youth will have its course.

44] When angry, count a hundred

45] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

46] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

47] Once bitten, twice shy.

48] Love cannot be compelled

49] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

50] A friend in need is a friend indeed

51] Change of pasture makes fat calves

52] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

53] Some are wise and some are otherwise

54] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

55] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

56] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

57] Precept begins, examples accomplish

58] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

59] A bully is always a coward

60] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

61] Many dishes make many diseases

62] No news is good news

63] Do as I say, not as I do

64] A bribe will enter without knocking

65] What is worse than ill luck?

66] A word spoken is past recalling

67] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

68] Variety is the spice of life

69] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

70] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

71] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

72] First things first

73] Tomorrow never comes

74] Better be born lucky than wise.

75] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

76] Suffering does not manifest itself

77] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

78] One can’t help many, but many can help one

79] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

80] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

81] The mob has many heads but no brains

82] Expectation is better than realisation

83] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

84] Waste makes wants

85] Patient men with the day.

86] Go not to hell for company

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

88] Men are known by the company they keep.

89] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

90] Small is beautiful

91] The bait hides the hook

92] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

93] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

94] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

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

96] A hungry man smells meat afar off

97] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

98] No tie can oblige the perfidious

99] One master in a house is enough

100] Everything in moderation.