Famous Proverbs

1] The good intention excuses the bad action

2] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

3] An army marches on its stomach

4] There is death in the pot.

5] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

6] All things are possible with god

7] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

8] Little pitchers have big ears.

9] It is useless to flog a dead horse

10] There is no blindness like ignorance

11] Fear of death is worse than death itself

12] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

13] Little pitchers have big ears.

14] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

15] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

16] A man with no hands is given a ring.

17] It is misery enough to have once been happy

18] Beauty opens locked doors

19] Live and let live

20] One reason is as good as fifty

21] He who begins many things, finishes but few

22] Big words seldom go with good deeds

23] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

24] The slowest barker is the surest biter

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

26] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

27] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

28] The age of miracles is past

29] The word is far him who has patience

30] A good beginning is half the battle.

31] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

32] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

33] Ready money is a ready remedy

34] An old horse knows the route

35] Tempt not a desperate man

36] So many men, so many opinions

37] Half an egg is better than empty shell

38] In wine there is truth

39] There’s always room at the top

40] All things for not all persons

41] The devil looks after his own

42] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

43] The king can do no wrong

44] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

45] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

46] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

47] Conscience does make cowards of us all

48] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

49] It is too late to look up after you have collided

50] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

51] A word spoken is past recalling

52] The mob tramples on the coward

53] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

54] Like will to like

55] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

56] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

57] Love can find a way

58] Patience is a virtue

59] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

60] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

61] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

62] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

63] Homo is a common name to all men.

64] Nature does nothing in vain

65] They are rich who have true friends

66] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

67] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

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

69] What’s done cannot be undone

70] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

71] No answer is also an answer

72] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

73] Alms never make poor

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

75] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

76] The rich knows not who is his friend

77] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

78] Almost’ never killed a fly.

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

80] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

81] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

82] Don’t take your harp to the party

83] At a good bargain thinks twice

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

85] Like breeds like

86] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

87] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

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

89] Even silence may be eloquent

90] Time and tide wait for no man

91] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

92] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

93] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

94] The resolved mind has no cares

95] No pain, no cure

96] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

97] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

98] Many a little makes a mickle

99] Do not wear out your welcome

100] Man proposes, God disposes