Famous Proverbs

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

2] A man may bear till his back breaks

3] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

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

5] Example, is better than precept

6] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

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

8] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

9] Comparisons are odious

10] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

11] There is no garden without its weeds

12] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

13] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

14] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

15] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

16] Take the will for the deed

17] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

18] The more you have the more you want

19] Take heed is a fair thing

20] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

21] All things for not all persons

22] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

23] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

24] Man cannot live by bread alone

25] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

26] To teach is to learn twice over

27] Nothing seek, nothing find

28] Make the best of a bad job

29] God makes the back for the burden

30] Never buy a pig in a poke

31] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

32] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

33] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

34] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

35] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

36] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

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

38] All lay loads on a willing horse

39] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

40] Share and share alike

41] Bad news travels fast

42] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

43] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

44] Patience is a plaster for all sores

45] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

46] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

47] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

48] Borrowed garments never fit well

49] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

50] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

51] Might is right

52] Children should be seen and not heard

53] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

54] Love is lawless.

55] Every dog is valiant at his won door

56] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

57] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

58] An angry man is not fit to pray

59] Children learn to creep ere they can go

60] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

61] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

62] All’s fish that comes to the net

63] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

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

65] He who considers too much will perform little.

66] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

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

68] Abundance, like want, ruins many

69] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

70] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

71] Desires are nourished by delays

72] One kindness is the price of another

73] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

74] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

75] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

76] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

77] Those near the temple deride the gods

78] A piece of churchyard fits every body

79] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

80] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

81] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

82] The bull must be taken by the horns

83] A good friend is my nearest relation

84] A good paymaster needs no surety

85] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

86] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

87] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

88] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

89] Man punishes the action but God the intention

90] Much science, much sorrow

91] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

92] Procrastination is the thief of time

93] A good word stills great anger

94] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

95] Do as you would be done by

96] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

97] Where there is whispering there is lying

98] If you have known one, you have known them all

99] The mob tramples on the coward

100] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need