Famous Proverbs

1] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

2] God sends cold after Clothes

3] Innocence is no protection

4] A man without a wife is but half a man

5] See which way the cat jumps

6] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

7] Variety takes away satiety

8] Shrouds have no pockets

9] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

10] It is a shame to be shameless

11] Friends are thieves of time

12] Precept begins, examples accomplish

13] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

14] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

15] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

16] Words cut more than swords

17] Much law but little justice

18] We don’t get something for nothing

19] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

20] Accidents will happen

21] Self-praise is no recommendation

22] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

23] In doing we learn.

24] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

25] There’s no great loss without some gain

26] Black will take no other hue

27] Every little helps

28] A learned man has always riches in himself

29] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

30] God arms the harmless

31] The king can do no wrong

32] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

33] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

34] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

35] The best fish swim near the bottom

36] Nature is content with little.

37] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

38] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

39] Every man to his trade.

40] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

41] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

42] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

43] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

44] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

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

46] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

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

48] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

49] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

50] Go not to hell for company

51] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

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

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

54] Take things as you find them

55] Far from eye, far from heart

56] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

57] More have repented speech than silence

58] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

59] Forecast is better than work-hard

60] Common fame is seldom to blame

61] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

62] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

63] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

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

65] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry

66] Like mistress, like maid

67] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

68] All’s well that ends well

69] One cannot put back the clock

70] A good dog deserves a good bone

71] The mean is the best

72] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

73] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

74] Care brings grey hair.

75] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

76] A change is as good as rest

77] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

78] Revenge is sweet

79] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

80] Ill luck is good for something

81] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

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

83] Quietness is a great treasure

84] The Pen is mightier than the sword

85] Danger makes men devout

86] No man can serve two masters

87] In the end, things will mend

88] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

89] You win some, you lose some

90] Too much cunning undoes

91] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

92] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

93] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

94] The ant had wings to her hurt

95] Every man is his own worst enemy

96] You must grin and bear it

97] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

98] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

99] Cheats never prosper

100] Hasty climbers have sudden falls