Famous Proverbs

1] One cannot love and be wise

2] Don’t play with fire

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

4] It takes two to make a quarrel

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

6] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

7] The garment worn determines how one is served

8] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

9] Good to begin well, better to end well.

10] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

11] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

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

13] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

14] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

15] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

16] No choice amongst stinking fish

17] He that sows virtue reaps fame

18] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

19] Plain dealing is a jewel

20] The pot calls the kettle black

21] Nature does nothing in vain

22] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

23] There are more men threatened than stricken

24] Self-praise is no recommendation

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

26] Confess and be hanged

27] Curiosity killed the cat.

28] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

29] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

30] Boys will be boys

31] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

32] The goat must browse where she is tied

33] Much science, much sorrow

34] He would command must serve

35] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

36] A rich man’s joke is always funny

37] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

38] We shall lie all alike in our graves

39] Every dog has his (its) day

40] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

41] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

42] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

43] Take heed is a fair thing

44] The money you refuse will never do you good

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

46] No cross, no crown

47] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

48] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

49] Ambition makes people diligent

50] He that has an ill name is half hanged

51] Be just before you are generous

52] Every path has a puddle

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

54] Too much cunning undoes

55] Death is the grand leveler

56] Habit is second nature

57] The fairest silk is soonest stained

58] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

59] A light purse makes a heavy heart

60] Birds of a feather flock together

61] Wise men do not argue with idiots

62] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

63] A good wife makes a good husband

64] When angry, count a hundred

65] Of a new prince, new bondage

66] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

67] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

68] Do as the friar says, not as he does

69] Pleasing ware is half sold

70] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

71] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

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

73] Idle folks have the least leisure

74] It never rains it pours

75] There’s a black sheep in every flock

76] Abundance, like want, ruins many

77] Fish begins to stink at the head

78] He that pities another remembers himself

79] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

80] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

81] Two heads are better than one

82] Busiest men find the most time

83] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

84] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

85] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

86] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

87] Tempt not a desperate man

88] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

89] No pain, no cure

90] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

91] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

92] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

93] Let not your tongue run at rover

94] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

95] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

96] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

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

98] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

99] What’s done cannot be undone

100] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad