Famous Proverbs

1] A change is as good as rest

2] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

3] Take the will for the deed

4] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

5] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

6] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

7] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

8] Learn not and know not

9] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

10] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

11] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

12] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

13] Charity excuseth not cheating.

14] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

15] Fish begins to stink at the head

16] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

17] Man proposes, God disposes

18] The sign brings customers

19] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

20] A little help is worth a deal of pity

21] They also serve who only stand and wait

22] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

23] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

24] Lose a leg rather than a life

25] Gifts blind the eyes.

26] Books and friends should be few but good

27] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

28] The course of true love never did run smooth

29] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

30] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

31] Virtue is the only true nobility

32] Spread the table, and contention will cease

33] Forewarned is forearmed

34] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

35] The absent saint gets no candle

36] There are more men threatened than stricken

37] Judge not, that ye be not judged

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

39] It is a great victory that comes without blood

40] There is no garden without its weeds

41] One sword keeps another in the sheath

42] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

43] The best things carried to excess are wrong

44] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

45] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

46] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

47] To err is human

48] Hear twice before you speak once

49] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

50] Nature is the true law

51] He that speaks well, flights well

52] It is too late to call back yesterday

53] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

54] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

55] It is a shame to be shameless

56] Love is blind

57] He stands not surely that never slips

58] The bull must be taken by the horns

59] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

60] Old cattle breed not

61] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

62] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

63] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

64] He who demands does not command

65] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

66] He that is born a fool is never cured

67] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

68] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

69] Pursuits become habits

70] Woes unite foes

71] Hard cases make bad law

72] You know what you can do till you try.

73] The first blow is half the battle

74] Good to begin well, better to end well.

75] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

76] You cannot have your cake and eat it

77] A good lawyer must be a great liar

78] If anything can go wrong, it will

79] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

80] Better to wear out than rust out

81] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

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

83] Much law but little justice

84] Better the foot slip than the tongue

85] Envy never enriched any man.

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

87] Silence is also speech

88] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

89] Two heads are better than one

90] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

91] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

92] Ill news comes unsent for.

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

94] Will is no skill

95] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

96] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

97] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

98] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

99] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

100] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house