Famous Proverbs

1] Children should be seen and not heard

2] Nothing is given so freely as advice

3] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

4] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

5] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

6] He who demands does not command

7] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

8] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

9] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

10] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

11] A bribe will enter without knocking

12] Slow and steady wins the race

13] Example is better than precept

14] They brag most who can do least

15] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

16] The absent party is always to blame.

17] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

18] Wine unveils the words of the heart

19] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

20] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

21] The race is got by running

22] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

23] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

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

25] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

26] There is many a fair thing full false

27] Two wrongs do not make a right

28] Homo is a common name to all men.

29] You may have too much of a good thing

30] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

31] No one betrays himself by silence

32] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

33] Birds of a feather flock together

34] All’s well that ends well

35] Make the best of a bad bargain

36] He that can stay. Obtains

37] A jest breaks no bones

38] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

39] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

40] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

41] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

42] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

43] Share and share alike

44] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

45] You cannot serve God and Mammon

46] A little impatience will spoil great plans

47] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

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

49] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

50] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

51] A good paymaster never wants workmen

52] Human blood is all of a colour

53] Money isn’t everything

54] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

55] None so deaf as those that will not hear

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

57] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

58] One good turn deserves another

59] A bad workman always blames his tools

60] Bad luck often brings good luck

61] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

62] Nature is content with little.

63] The devil dances in an empty pocket

64] Accidents will happen

65] The hole calls the thief

66] All are not saints that go to church

67] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

68] He who envies admits his inferiority

69] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

70] Like question, like answer.

71] Gossiping and lying go together

72] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

73] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

74] Hard cases make bad law

75] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

76] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

77] Adam’s ale is the best brew

78] When the word is out it belongs to another

79] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

80] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

81] Men make houses, women make homes

82] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

83] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

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

85] Better a bare foot than none

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

87] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

88] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

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

90] A man can do no more than he can

91] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

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

93] Virtue is the only true nobility

94] Health is better than wealth

95] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

96] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

97] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

98] Idle folks lack no excuses

99] Fair face, foul heart

100] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.