Famous Proverbs

1] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

2] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

3] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

4] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

5] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

6] Parents are patterns

7] Better be safe than sorry

8] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

9] Remember, you are but a man

10] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

11] Men make houses, women make homes

12] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

13] Custom makes all things easy

14] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

15] Without luck, it is better not to be born

16] A black hen lays a white egg

17] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

18] Law makers should not be law breakers

19] Half an egg is better than empty shell

20] You win some, you lose some

21] No sweet without sweat

22] Covetousness breaks the sack

23] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

24] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

25] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

26] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

27] Wrong has no warrant

28] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

29] There are two sides to every question

30] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

31] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

32] Nothing crave, nothing have

33] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

34] You cannot make bricks without straw

35] Experience is the best teacher

36] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

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

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

39] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

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

41] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

42] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

43] Custom makes all things easy

44] You cannot serve God and Mammon

45] A good husband makes a good wife

46] Ill news comes unsent for.

47] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

48] A useful trade is a mine of gold

49] All that glitters is not gold

50] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

51] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

52] As you sow, so shall you reap

53] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

54] It takes a wise man to be a fool

55] New brooms sweep clean

56] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

57] Rip not up old sores

58] The beaten road is the safest

59] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

60] Little things are pretty

61] Mere wishes are silly fishes

62] Penny wise, pound foolish

63] Desires are nourished by delays

64] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

65] Don’t cry before you are hurt

66] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

67] Confess and be hanged

68] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

69] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

70] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

71] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

72] Nature surpasses art

73] A wise man hears one word and understands two

74] Tempt not a desperate man

75] There is death in the pot.

76] Truth is mighty and will prevail

77] Care is no cure

78] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

79] When the cat is away, the mice will play

80] He who has seen little marvels much

81] In the end, things will mend

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

83] Either mend or end

84] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

85] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

86] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

87] Out of sight, out of mind

88] Little things please little minds

89] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

90] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

91] Actions speak louder than words

92] When bees area old, they yield n honey

93] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

94] The pen is the tongue of the hand

95] Dead dogs bark not

96] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

97] A good beginning is half the battle.

98] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

99] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

100] What is worth doing is worth doing well