Famous Proverbs

1] Give and take is fair play

2] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

3] The first blow is half the battle

4] A rolling stone gathers no moss

5] Death does not recognize strength

6] You are never too old to learn

7] Novelty always appears handsome

8] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

9] Little things are pretty

10] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

11] A good example is the best sermon

12] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

13] Honest is the best policy

14] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

15] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

16] Once a use and ever a custom

17] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

18] No one ought to judge in his own cause

19] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

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

21] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

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

23] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

24] Words are but wind

25] Advise none to marry or to go to war

26] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

27] Let us do evil that good may come

28] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

29] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

30] The devil lurks behind the cross

31] Nature is content with little.

32] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

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

34] One sword keeps another in the sheath

35] Actions speak louder than words

36] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

37] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

38] There is none misfortune cannot reach

39] Hope often deludes the foolish man

40] Every man must carry his own cross

41] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

42] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

43] Better an apple given than eaten

44] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

45] Truth is stranger than fiction

46] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

47] No answer is also an answer

48] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

49] What must be must be

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

51] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

52] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

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

54] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

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

56] Names are debts

57] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

58] It’s a long lane that has no turning

59] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

60] Laugh and grow fat

61] Valour delights in the test

62] Beauty opens locked doors

63] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

64] When angry, count a hundred

65] No flying without wings.

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

67] A parrot will only say what it is taught

68] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

69] A single rose does not mean spring

70] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

71] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

72] Leave well alone

73] God arms the harmless

74] Company in misery makes it light

75] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

76] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

77] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

78] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

79] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

80] A watched pot never boils

81] An old horse knows the route

82] They say so’ is half a lie

83] Children and fools have merry lives

84] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

85] Man proposes, God disposes

86] You must grin and bear it

87] A true friend is forever a friend

88] The game is not worth the candle

89] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

90] Nature is conquered by obeying her

91] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

92] Patience is a virtue

93] The course of true love never did run smooth

94] Love me, love the crows on my roof

95] All that glitters is not gold

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

97] Many doctors, death accomplished

98] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

99] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

100] Sometimes the best gain is to lose