Famous Proverbs

1] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

2] Bare walls make giddy housewives

3] Bear with evil and expect good

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

5] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

6] A rolling stone gathers no moss

7] Novelty always appears handsome

8] Truth is stranger than fiction

9] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

10] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

11] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

12] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

13] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

14] He gives twice who gives quickly

15] The end crowns the work.

16] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

17] The ass that brays most eats

18] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

19] A good paymaster needs no surety

20] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

21] A good name is better than riches

22] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

23] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

24] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

25] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

26] Through hardship to the stars

27] Few words are best

28] It is good to follow the old fox

29] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

30] Never say die

31] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

32] All men are mortal

33] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

34] Better an apple given than eaten

35] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

36] The best is often the enemy of the good

37] A rich man can do nothing wrong

38] Weeds need no sowing

39] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

40] Delay is the antidote of anger

41] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

42] Wise men do not argue with idiots

43] Stolen goods never thrive

44] Work won’t kill but worry will.

45] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

46] Repentance comes too late

47] First try and then trust

48] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

49] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

50] Let like mate with like

51] The more you have the more you want

52] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

53] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

54] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

55] Ill gotten, ill spent

56] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

57] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

58] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

59] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

60] What has been, may be

61] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

62] In my own house, I am king

63] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

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

65] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

66] Variety takes away satiety

67] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

68] Petty laws breed great crimes

69] The longest journey starts with a single step

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

71] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

72] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

73] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

74] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

75] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

76] Hitch your wagon to a star

77] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

78] Moderation in all things

79] One swallow does not make a summer

80] One cannot put back the clock

81] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

82] Tell the truth and shame the devil

83] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

84] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

85] Every law has a loophole

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

87] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

88] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

89] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

90] A fault confessed is half redressed

91] Woes unite foes

92] He is wise who looks ahead

93] All cats are grey in the dark

94] Years know more than books

95] Forewarned is forearmed

96] Little things are great to little men

97] Old vessels must leak

98] Do not triumph before the victory

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

100] You must lose a fly to catch a trout