Famous Proverbs

1] Take away fuel, take away flame

2] Time flees without a delay

3] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

4] Every shoe fits not every foot

5] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

6] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

7] The deed comes back upon the doer.

8] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

9] Eat to live and not live to eat.

10] Good wine needs no bush

11] Man cannot live by bread alone

12] One is not smelt where all stink

13] A willful man will have his way

14] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

15] Do as I say, not as I do

16] Much science, much sorrow

17] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

18] Every may be has a may not be

19] Adventures are to be adventurous

20] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

21] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

22] What can’t be cured must be endured

23] Money talks

24] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

25] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

26] God’s help is better than the early rising

27] There is no tree but bears some fruit

28] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

29] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

30] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

31] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

32] Anything will fit a naked man.

33] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

34] Hunger breaks stone walls

35] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

36] They are rich who have true friends

37] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

38] The good is often the enemy of the best

39] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

40] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

41] He that travels far knows much

42] The slowest barker is the surest biter

43] All doors open to courtesy

44] Wise men propose, and fools determine

45] Do right and fear no man

46] Waste not, want not

47] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

48] No tie can oblige the perfidious

49] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

50] Let like mate with like

51] Many hands make light work

52] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

53] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

54] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

55] A beggar can never be bankrupt

56] Friends agree best at a distance

57] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

58] Take time by the forelock

59] None so blind as those who will not see

60] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

61] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

62] He laughs best who laughs last

63] Good words are worth much and cost little

64] A straight stick is crooked in water

65] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

66] Bare walls make giddy housewives

67] Every man must carry his own cross

68] Weak things united become strong

69] Money makes the man

70] Shrouds have no pockets

71] A good lawyer must be a great liar

72] Advice when most needed is least heeded

73] The axe falls on a straight tree first

74] Necessity is a powerful weapon

75] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

76] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

77] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

78] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

79] You never know what you can do till you try

80] The devil knows many things because he is old

81] Death alone can kill hope

82] Great oaks from little acorns grow

83] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

84] Slow and steady wins the race

85] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

86] Too far east is west

87] Too much money makes one mad

88] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

89] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

90] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

91] Mirth is the sugar of life

92] A word spoken is past recalling

93] The tide must be taken when it comes

94] Don’t tell tales out of school

95] A good marksman may miss

96] Weapons breed peace

97] Hard words break no bones

98] An evil life is a kind of death.

99] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

100] It is more blessed to give than to receive