Famous Proverbs

1] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

2] The world is full of fools

3] Cast not the first stone.

4] Do right and fear no man

5] Look on the bright side

6] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

7] No pain, no cure

8] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

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

10] Hitch your wagon to a star

11] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

12] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

13] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

14] None so blind as those who will not see

15] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

16] Nothing succeeds like success

17] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

19] Better no doctor at all than three.

20] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

21] Too much cunning undoes

22] They that dance must pay the fiddler

23] Half a word is enough for a wise man

24] Good broth may be made in an old pot

25] None so blind as those who will not see

26] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

27] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

28] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

29] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

30] Once a knave, always a knave

31] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

32] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

33] Wake not a sleeping lion

34] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

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

36] In wine there is truth

37] Cowards die many times before their deaths

38] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

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

40] Forewarned is forearmed

41] More than enough is too much

42] Quietness is a great treasure

43] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

44] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

45] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

46] Fool’s haste is no speed

47] A soft answer turns away wrath

48] Love laughs at locksmiths

49] A cat has nine lives

50] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

51] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

52] Ill gotten, ill spent

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

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

55] Poor folk fare the best

56] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

57] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

58] Better beg than steal.

59] Those near the temple deride the gods

60] All heiresses are beautiful.

61] Human blood is all of a colour

62] Laughter makes good blood

63] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

64] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

65] All covet all lose.

66] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

67] The best fish swim near the bottom

68] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

69] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

70] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

71] Words are but wind

72] Care brings grey hair.

73] Content is more than a kingdom

74] Union is strength.

75] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

76] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

77] Half an egg is better than empty shell

78] Do not triumph before the victory

79] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

80] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

81] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

82] It’s a long lane that has no turning

83] Sickness shows us what we are

84] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

85] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

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

87] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

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

89] Never say die

90] Work won’t kill but worry will.

91] Virtue joints man to god

92] Step by step the ladder is ascended

93] He who demands does not command

94] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

95] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

96] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

97] Clothes do not make the man

98] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

99] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

100] He that brings good news, knocks hard