Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

2] The borrower is servant to the lender

3] Borrowed garments never fit well

4] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

5] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

6] Soon hot, soon cold

7] Desires are nourished by delays

8] Half a word is enough for a wise man

9] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

10] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

11] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

12] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

13] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

14] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

15] A good conscience is a sure card

16] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

17] Familiarity breeds contempt

18] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

19] None so blind as those who will not see

20] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

21] Never too late to repent

22] All that glitters is not gold

23] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

24] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

25] A penny saved is a penny gained

26] Love turns pimples

27] Open confession is good for the soul

28] Fear of death is worse than death itself

29] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

30] The good intention excuses the bad action

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

32] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

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

34] Too much money makes one mad

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

36] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

37] A parrot will only say what it is taught

38] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

39] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

40] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

41] Too much hope deceives

42] The best things in life are free

43] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

44] Evil to him who evil thinks.

45] His bark is worse than his bite

46] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

47] He who wills the end, Wills the means

48] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

49] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

50] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

51] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

52] Man punishes the action but God the intention

53] The voice is the best music

54] Paddle your own canoe

55] A hungry man smells meat afar off

56] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

57] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

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

59] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

60] Never do evil that good may come of it

61] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

62] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

63] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

64] A man’s wealth is his enemy

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

66] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

67] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

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

69] Patient men with the day.

70] All griefs with bread are less

71] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

72] Nature is content with little.

73] A good dog deserves a good bone

74] Almost’ never killed a fly.

75] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

76] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

77] Garbage in, garbage out

78] The receiver is as bad as the thief

79] Use makes mastery

80] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

81] There is many a true word spoken in jest

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

83] The devil dances in an empty pocket

84] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

85] There’s no great loss without some gain

86] A heavy purse makes a light heart

87] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

88] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

89] Pursuits become habits

90] Curiosity killed the cat.

91] He who comes first, grinds first.

92] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

93] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

94] Many a true word is spoken in jest

95] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

96] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

97] Sooner begun, sooner done

98] Revenge is sweet

99] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

100] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose