Famous Proverbs

1] Money has no smell

2] Years know more than books

3] Gifts blind the eyes.

4] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

5] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

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

7] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

8] Let not your tongue run at rover

9] When in doubt, do nothing

10] All good things must come to an end

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

12] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

13] Custom makes all things easy

14] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

15] Men make houses, women make homes

16] Man punishes the action but God the intention

17] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

18] If today will not, tomorrow may

19] Never too late to learn

20] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

21] Riches along make no men happy

22] Good ware makes quick market

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

24] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

25] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

26] There is safety in numbers

27] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

28] Live and Learn

29] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

30] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

31] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

32] Better to ask the way than go astray.

33] Delay is the antidote of anger

34] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

35] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

36] Love is never without jealousy

37] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

38] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

39] In peace, prepare for war

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

41] A crust is better than no bread.

42] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

43] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

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

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

46] Fortune is blind

47] Everything would fain live

48] No misfortune will go on forever

49] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

50] If you play with fire you get burnt

51] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

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

53] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

54] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

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

56] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

57] The dog is a lion in his own house

58] One good turn deserves another

59] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

60] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

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

62] Spread the table, and contention will cease

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

64] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

65] Confess and be hanged

66] All our pomp the earth covers

67] Words bind men

68] Full of courtesy, full of craft

69] The ant had wings to her hurt

70] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

71] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

72] At a good bargain thinks twice

73] You never know your luck

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

75] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

76] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

77] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

78] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

79] A good paymaster needs no surety

80] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

81] He who never was sick dies the first fit

82] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

83] Come with the wind, got with the water

84] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

85] Every man has his price

86] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

87] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

88] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

89] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

90] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

91] An oak is not felled at one stroke

92] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

93] Names are debts

94] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

95] Everything comes to him who waits

96] No man is content with his lot

97] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

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

99] Love sees no fault

100] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper