Famous Proverbs

1] A little help is worth a deal of pity

2] Many eyes upon the king

3] Like question, like answer.

4] There’s no place like home

5] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

6] Wisdom is better than strength

7] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

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

9] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

10] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

11] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

12] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

13] There is no garden without its weeds

14] Will is the cause of woe

15] Clothes do not make the man

16] All things require skills but an appetite

17] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

18] Eat to live and not live to eat.

19] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

20] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

21] Fools grow without watering.

22] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

23] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

24] An army marches on its stomach

25] Liars should have good memories

26] There is no royal road to learning

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

28] A watched pot never boils

29] A true man and a thief think not the same

30] Never judge from appearances

31] Her that is down need fear no fall

32] Patience surpasses learning

33] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

34] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

35] He is lifeless that is faultless

36] He that seeks trouble never misses

37] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

38] In everything consider the end

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

40] Things are seldom what they seem.

41] No answer is also an answer

42] Let sleeping dogs lie

43] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

44] Like father, like son

45] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

46] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

47] The axe falls on a straight tree first

48] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

49] He that cannot ask, cannot live

50] The tide must be taken when it comes

51] The slowest barker is the surest biter

52] The leopard cannot change its spots

53] Hungry bellies have no ears

54] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

55] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

56] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

57] Better eye sore than al blind

58] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

59] He who hesitates is lost

60] Gold will not buy everything

61] Muck and money go together

62] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

63] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

64] Covetousness breaks the sack

65] You are never too old to learn

66] Cheap is dear in the long run.

67] To teach is to learn twice over

68] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

69] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

70] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

71] Grin and bear it

72] When meat is in anger is out

73] Money is the only monarch

74] Praise is always pleasant

75] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

76] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

77] The thing which is rare is dear

78] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

79] God arms the harmless

80] How forceful are right words

81] A good servant must have good wages

82] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

83] Full of courtesy, full of craft

84] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

85] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

86] Divine grace was never slow

87] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

88] Nature will have her course

89] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

90] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

91] Idleness is the root of all evil

92] When one door shuts, another opens

93] Possibilities are infinite

94] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

95] Six feet of earth make all men equal

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

97] Other times, other manners

98] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

99] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

100] Handsome is as handsome does