Famous Proverbs

1] Sorrow will pay no debt

2] A wise man hears one word and understands two

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

4] Anger without power is folly

5] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

6] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

7] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

8] Blue are the far away hills

9] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

10] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

11] Out of sight, out of mind

12] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

13] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

14] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

15] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

16] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

17] A good name is better than riches

18] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

19] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

20] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

21] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

22] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

23] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

24] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

25] He that seeks trouble never misses

26] One cannot love and be wise

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

28] Ill news comes apace.

29] Patient men with the day.

30] Great trees keep down the little ones

31] Without diligence, no prize

32] Silence never makes mistakes

33] Never refuse a good offer

34] One today is worth two tomorrows

35] Six feet of earth make all men equal

36] The more you have the more you want

37] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

38] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

39] The best things are hard to come by.

40] Success has many friends

41] Nature abhors a vacuum

42] God provides for him that trusts

43] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

44] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

45] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

46] Honesty is ill to thrive by

47] A good name is sooner lost than won

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

49] Paddle your own canoe

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

51] Penny and penny laid up will be many

52] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

53] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

54] Without luck, it is better not to be born

55] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

56] Nature does nothing in vain

57] What is word but wind?

58] Better an apple given than eaten

59] True doctrines require no miracles

60] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

61] He that blows best, bears away the horn

62] Better to ask the way than go astray.

63] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

64] What can’t be cured must be endured

65] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

66] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

67] It is not work that kills but worry

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

69] Books and friends should be few but good

70] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

71] The pot calls the kettle black

72] One fool praises another

73] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

74] The more wicked, the more lucky

75] Hunger is sharper than the sword

76] He that has good money, gives few alms

77] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

78] Liars should have good memories

79] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

80] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

81] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

82] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

83] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

84] He who teaches learns

85] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

86] There is no tree but bears some fruit

87] No hair so small but has his shadow

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

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

90] After the extreme of cold comes spring

91] Hard words break no bones

92] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

93] It is good to follow the old fox

94] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

95] Waste is not grandeur

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

97] Quietness is a great treasure

98] Money refused loses its brightness

99] There’s a time and place for everything

100] One kindness is the price of another