Famous Proverbs

1] Prove your friend ere you have need

2] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

3] Cowards die many times before their deaths

4] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

5] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

6] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

7] A still tongue makes a wise head

8] Look at the bright side

9] A good husband makes a good wife

10] There’s a time and place for everything

11] Variety is the spice of life

12] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

13] A piece of churchyard fits every body

14] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

15] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

16] Ill gotten, ill spent

17] The highest tree has the greatest fall

18] A useful trade is a mine of gold

19] New brooms sweep clean

20] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

21] Good luck beats early rising

22] No pain, no cure

23] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

24] If anything can go wrong, it will

25] Idle folks lack no excuses

26] Hasty work, double work,

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

28] The hand that gives, gathers

29] The end makes all equal

30] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

31] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

32] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

33] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

34] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

35] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

36] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

37] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

38] Train the child in the way he should go.

39] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

40] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

41] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

42] Better the foot slip than the tongue

43] Where there is peace, there is blessing

44] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

45] Barking dogs seldom bite

46] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

47] Change of pasture makes fat calves

48] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

49] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

50] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

51] One thief will not rob another

52] Almost’ never killed a fly.

53] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

54] It is best to be on the safe side

55] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

56] In the end, things will mend

57] Two blacks do not make a white

58] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

59] All our pomp the earth covers

60] That which proves too much proves nothing

61] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

62] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

63] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

64] Do as say, not as I do

65] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

66] Many drops make a shower

67] You cannot unscramble eggs

68] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

69] He who teaches learns

70] Failure teaches success

71] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

72] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

73] Every cloud has a silver lining

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

75] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

76] The more wicked, the more lucky

77] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

78] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

79] Look at the bright side

80] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

81] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

82] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

83] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

84] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

85] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

86] That which proves too much proves nothing

87] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

88] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

89] Light grows the burden which is well borne

90] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

91] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

92] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

93] A wise man hears one word and understands two

94] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

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

96] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

97] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

98] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

99] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

100] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned