Famous Proverbs

1] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

2] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

3] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

4] Great talkers are never great doers

5] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

6] Great actions speak minds

7] New brooms sweep clean

8] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

9] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

10] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

11] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

12] Christmas comes but once a year

13] Small is beautiful

14] Words and feathers the wind carries away

15] No man fears what he has seen grow

16] One barber shaves another gratis

17] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

18] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

19] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

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

21] Second thoughts are best

22] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

23] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

24] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

25] Better learn late than never

26] The best is often the enemy of the good

27] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

28] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

29] Success makes a fool seem wise.

30] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

31] Necessity is the mother of invention

32] Dog does not eat dog

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

34] Four eyes see better than two.

35] Suffering does not manifest itself

36] East or west, home is best

37] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

38] A good payer is master of another’s purse

39] The grace of God enough

40] It is a shame to be shameless

41] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

42] The road to hell is paved with good action

43] Much would have more

44] Words bind men

45] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

46] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

47] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

48] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

49] Patience is a virtue

50] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

51] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

52] New things are fair

53] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

54] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

55] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

56] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

57] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

58] Let the buyer beware

59] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

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

61] Little wealth, little care

62] A penny saved is a penny gained

63] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

64] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

65] The bait hides the hook

66] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

67] Borrowed garments never fit well

68] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

69] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

70] Let bygones be bygones

71] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

72] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

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

74] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

75] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

76] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

77] Necessity breaks iron

78] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

79] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

80] Heaven helps those who help themselves

81] Frugality is the mother of virtue

82] Variety is charming

83] Never too late to late to repent

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

85] They brag most who can do least

86] Many a little makes a mickle

87] There is many a fair thing full false

88] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

89] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

90] Call no man happy till he is dead

91] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

92] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

93] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

94] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

95] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

96] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

97] Kind hearts are more than coronets

98] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

99] Do not kick against the pricks

100] Don’t cry before you are hurt