Famous Proverbs

1] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

2] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

3] Better an apple given than eaten

4] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

5] All truths are not to be told

6] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

7] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

8] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

9] As soon as there is life there is danger

10] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

11] Shrouds have no pockets

12] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

13] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

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

15] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

16] Prospect is often better than possession

17] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

18] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

19] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

20] Haste is of (or from) the devil

21] Dirty linen should be washed at home

22] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

23] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

24] A bully never grows up.

25] He who serves is not free

26] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

27] Beware of a silent man and still water

28] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

29] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

30] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

31] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

32] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

33] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

34] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

35] One today is worth two tomorrows

36] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

37] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

38] A little too late, is much too late

39] Every man must carry his own cross

40] Words are but wind

41] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

42] Many a little makes a mickle

43] A jack of all traders is master of none

44] Mirth is the sugar of life

45] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

46] Don’t put the cart before the horse

47] The highest branch is not the safest roost

48] He who considers too much will perform little.

49] III luck is good for something

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

51] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

52] The early man ever borrows from the late man

53] Nature is conquered by obeying her

54] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

55] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

56] It is more blessed to give than to receive

57] No pains, no gains

58] The hand that gives, gathers

59] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

60] Even reckoning makes long friends

61] His own ingenuity pricks him.

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

63] Never spend your money before you have it

64] Cheap is dear in the long run.

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

66] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

67] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

68] Good fences make good neighbours

69] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

70] Better be born lucky than wise.

71] Familiarity breeds contempt

72] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

73] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

74] He that has plenty of goods will have more

75] Almost’ never killed a fly.

76] There is honour among thieves

77] We soon believe what we desire

78] Wise men silent, fools talk

79] A man’s mother is his other God

80] No tie can oblige the perfidious

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

82] Don’t cry stinking fish

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

84] Sow thin and mow thin

85] Men are not to be measured in inches

86] Poor men’s words have little weight

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

88] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

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

90] Past cure, past care

91] When the cat is away, the mice will play

92] Empty vessels make the most noise

93] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

94] The pen is the tongue of the hand

95] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

96] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

97] Do not wear out your welcome

98] It is a great victory that comes without blood

99] Water is the king of food

100] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher