Famous Proverbs

1] Mercy surpasses justice

2] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

3] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

4] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

5] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

6] The eye is bigger than the belly

7] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

8] The best things carried to excess are wrong

9] Travel broadens the mind

10] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

11] The highest branch is not the safest roost

12] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

13] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

14] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

15] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

16] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

17] The end justifies the means

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

19] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

20] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

21] What is a workman without his tools?

22] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

23] Honest is the best policy

24] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

25] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

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

27] You cannot make a crab walk straight

28] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

29] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

30] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

31] By falling we learn to go safely

32] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

33] Either mend or end

34] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

35] Do not triumph before the victory

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

37] Intimacy lessens fame

38] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

39] Wrong has no warrant

40] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

41] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

42] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

43] Necessity knows no law

44] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

45] Repentance comes too late

46] Every cloud has a silver lining

47] There is nothing new under the sun

48] Too much cunning undoes

49] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

50] Don’t meet trouble half-way

51] He that cannot ask, cannot live

52] Of evil manners, spring good laws

53] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

54] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

55] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

56] Experience is the mother of wisdom

57] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

58] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

59] Strength grows stronger by being tried

60] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

61] Make the best of a bad bargain

62] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

63] Don’t ride the high horse

64] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

65] It is good to follow the old fox

66] Never judge from appearances

67] The first blow is half the battle

68] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

69] Never spur a willing horse

70] The best is often the enemy of the good

71] Words bind men

72] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

73] The best is often the enemy of the good

74] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

75] Half a word is enough for a wise man

76] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

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

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

79] Let sleeping dogs lie

80] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

81] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

82] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

83] Long absent, soon forgotten

84] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

85] More haste, less speed

86] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

87] Home is where the heart is

88] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

89] Dirty linen should be washed at home

90] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

91] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

92] Whatever man has done, man can do

93] Divine grace was never slow

94] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

95] Faint heart never won fair lady

96] Live and Learn

97] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

98] Nature is conquered by obeying her

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

100] Like will to like