Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t try to run before you walk

2] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

3] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

4] Honesty is ill to thrive by

5] No feast lasts forever.

6] Think on the end before you begin

7] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

8] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

9] No remedy but patience

10] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

11] Hunger breaks stone walls

12] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

13] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

14] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

15] Company in misery makes it light

16] After a storm comes a calm

17] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

18] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

19] Either mend or end

20] Prevention is better than cure

21] Long absent, soon forgotten

22] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

23] He that has no money needs no purse

24] A word to the wise is enough

25] More haste, less speed

26] Where there is peace, there is blessing

27] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

28] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

29] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

30] Kill two birds with one stone

31] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

32] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

33] He knows most who speaks least

34] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

35] Health without money is half an ague

36] Experience is the mother of wisdom

37] No sweet without sweat

38] Who suffers much is silent

39] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

40] Desires are nourished by delays

41] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

42] Nature hates all sudden changes

43] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

44] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

45] Expectation is better than realisation

46] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

47] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

48] A jest breaks no bones

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

50] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

51] Time has wings

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

53] A true friend is forever a friend

54] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

55] None but the brave deserves the fair

56] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

57] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

58] A little help is worth a deal of pity

59] Children and chickens must be always picking

60] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

61] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

62] We don’t get something for nothing

63] Eat to live and not live to eat.

64] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

65] He that eats least eats most

66] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

67] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

68] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

69] Every man has his price

70] Ready money is ready medicine

71] A jack of all traders is master of none

72] Never spur a willing horse

73] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

74] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

75] Bread is the staff of life.

76] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

77] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

78] Where there are reeds, there is water

79] A rich man can do nothing wrong

80] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

81] Small is the seed of every greatness

82] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

83] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

84] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

85] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

86] He who last, laughs longest.

87] The result justifies the deed

88] Better a bare foot than none

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

90] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

91] The lion had need of the mouse

92] Empty vessels make the most noise

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

94] Better beg than steal.

95] Of one ill come many

96] Strength grows stronger by being tried

97] A soft answer turns away wrath

98] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

99] All cats are grey in the dark

100] A monk can’t shave his own head