Famous Proverbs

1] Health and money go far

2] His own ingenuity pricks him.

3] What is a workman without his tools?

4] He conquers who endures

5] No day so clear but has dark clouds

6] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

7] The devil dances in an empty pocket

8] Worse things happen at sea

9] Either mend or end

10] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

11] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

12] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

13] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

14] Spend and be free, but make no waste

15] He that wants health wants all

16] Crows are all completely black

17] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

18] There is death in the pot.

19] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

20] Learn not and know not

21] What’s in a name?

22] The good intention excuses the bad action

23] He that has good money, gives few alms

24] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

25] Worse things happen at sea

26] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

27] In indecision itself, grief is present.

28] He knows which side his bread is buttered

29] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

30] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

31] Money refused loses its brightness

32] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

33] No man is born wise or learned

34] A man can die but once

35] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

36] The best fish swim near the bottom

37] Too much curiosity lost paradise

38] A mouse may help a lion

39] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

40] Everyone to his taste

41] The race is got by running

42] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

43] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

44] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

45] Love your friend with his fault

46] Money is the root of all evil

47] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

48] The tide must be taken when it comes

49] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

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

51] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

52] Excessive happiness produces pain

53] One thief will not rob another

54] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

55] Life begins only in success

56] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

57] Nature is conquered by obeying her

58] No flying without wings.

59] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

60] Never grieve for what you cannot help

61] Suffering does not manifest itself

62] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

63] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

64] What’s in a name?

65] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

66] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

67] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

68] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

69] They say so’ is half a lie

70] Far from eye, far from heart

71] God provides for him that trusts

72] The cowl does not make the monk.

73] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

74] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

75] Let bygones be bygones

76] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

77] Remember, you are but a man

78] You must grin and bear it

79] What may be done at any time is done at no time

80] Good fame is better than a good face

81] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

82] They can do least two boast loudest

83] A little impatience will spoil great plans

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

85] All things are difficult before they are easy

86] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

87] Law makers should not be law breakers

88] Everything would fain live

89] Don’t put the cart before the horse

90] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

91] Good broth may be made in an old pot

92] A little is better than none

93] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

94] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

95] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

96] Take heed is a fair thing

97] Beauty is but skin-deep

98] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

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

100] Great talkers are never great doers