Famous Proverbs

1] There is no tree but bears some fruit

2] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

3] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

4] He who sows, trusts in God

5] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

6] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

7] It is not work that kills but worry

8] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

9] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

10] Opportunity makes the thief

11] Creditors have better memories than debtors

12] In wine there is truth

13] The borrower is servant to the lender

14] So many countries, so many customs

15] A change is as good as rest

16] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

17] You are never too old to learn

18] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

19] Success makes a fool seem wise.

20] A jack of all traders is master of none

21] He that has an ill name is half hanged

22] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

23] Even water has its ebb and flow

24] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

25] Every man has his faults

26] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

27] Train the child in the way he should go.

28] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

29] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

30] A monk can’t shave his own head

31] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

32] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

33] Use makes mastery

34] You cannot have it both ways

35] Christmas comes but once a year

36] Might is right

37] You can’t tell a book by its cover

38] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

39] A man of courage never wants weapons

40] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

41] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

42] No wrong without a remedy

43] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

44] Excessive happiness produces pain

45] Misfortune makes foes of friends

46] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

47] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

48] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

49] There is nothing lost by civility

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

51] Frugality is the mother of virtue

52] Hope is the poor man’s bread

53] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

54] A good name is a rich heritage

55] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

56] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

57] Example is better than precept

58] The worse luck now, the better another time

59] Care is no cure

60] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

61] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

62] Beauty draws more than oxen

63] Every flow must have its ebb

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

65] He that has no shame has no conscience

66] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

67] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

68] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

69] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

70] Do not limp before the lame

71] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

72] He has not lost all who has one cast left

73] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

74] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

75] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

76] Dying men speak true

77] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

78] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

79] God provides for him that trusts

80] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

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

82] You cannot have your cake and eat it

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

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

85] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

86] Fortune is blind

87] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

88] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

89] Never refuse a good offer

90] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

91] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

92] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

93] He who touches pitch will be defiled

94] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

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

96] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

97] One can’t help many, but many can help one

98] He that sows virtue reaps fame

99] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

100] The best go first