Famous Proverbs

1] Now is now, and then was then

2] There’s no place like home

3] Sow thin and mow thin

4] Enough is enough

5] Distance lends enchantment to the view

6] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

7] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

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

9] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

10] There is many a fair thing full false

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

12] Everything is good in its season

13] Too many cooks spoil the broth

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

15] Appearances are deceptive

16] Where there is whispering there is lying

17] Every path has a puddle

18] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

19] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

20] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

21] All truths are not to be told

22] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

23] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

24] Silence gives (or means) consent

25] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

26] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

27] The greatest step is that out of doors

28] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

29] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

30] The company makes the feast

31] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

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

33] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

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

35] Everything new is fine

36] He travels the fastest who travels alone

37] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

38] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

39] The longest way round is the shortest way home

40] Call a spade a spade

41] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

42] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

43] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

44] A learned man has always riches in himself

45] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

46] It is best to be on the safe side

47] He that speaks well, flights well

48] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

49] He that has plenty of goods will have more

50] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

51] By falling we learn to go safely

52] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

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

54] Great oaks from little acorns grow

55] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

56] Death alone can kill hope

57] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

58] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

59] He that is down need fear no fall

60] Fish begins to stink at the head

61] One must howl with the wolves

62] A man may learn wit every day.

63] New things are fair

64] Cleanliness is next to godliness

65] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

66] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

67] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

68] A heavy purse makes a light heart

69] Early sow, early mow

70] Make the best of a bad job

71] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

72] Give and take is fair play

73] No good building without a good foundation.

74] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

75] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

76] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

77] The early man ever borrows from the late man

78] Beware of no man more than himself

79] He may find fault that cannot mend

80] God sends cold after Clothes

81] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

82] Every man must carry his own cross

83] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

84] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

85] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

86] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

87] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

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

89] He who leaps high must take a long run

90] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

91] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

92] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

93] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

94] Bind the sack before it be full

95] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

96] Charity begins at home.

97] A good garden may have some ill weeds

98] The wisest of the wise may err.

99] Rats know the ways of rats

100] High places have their precipices