Famous Proverbs

1] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

2] The early man ever borrows from the late man

3] Love delights in praise

4] As long lives a merry man as a sad

5] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

6] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

7] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

8] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

9] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

10] The end makes all equal

11] Ill luck is good for something

12] Great actions speak minds

13] Take away fuel, take away flame

14] Gluttony kills more than the sword

15] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

16] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

17] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

18] You can’t win them all

19] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

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

21] A man’s mother is his other God

22] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

23] A bully is always a coward

24] Might overcome right.

25] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

26] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

27] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

28] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

29] Judge not, that ye be not judged

30] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

31] He is lifeless that is faultless

32] Delay is the antidote of anger

33] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

34] Better sit still than rise and fall

35] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

36] There is a great difference between words and deeds

37] He that eats least eats most

38] Strike while the iron is hot

39] True gold is not transformed by fire

40] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

41] More have repented speech than silence

42] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

43] Tempt not a desperate man

44] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

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

46] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

47] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

48] Business is business

49] To teach is to learn twice over

50] Speech is silver, silence is golden

51] A wicked man is his own hell

52] The best of men are but men at best.

53] A soft answer turns away wrath

54] So many men, so many opinions

55] A door must be either shut or open

56] Spread the table, and contention will cease

57] Better the last smile than the first laugh

58] Wise men are caught in wiles

59] Of evil manners, spring good laws

60] Health and money go far

61] Put not the bucket too often in the well

62] The day obliterates the promise of the might

63] Adam’s ale is the best brew

64] Dead dogs bark not

65] No pain, no cure

66] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

67] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

68] No day so clear but has dark clouds

69] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

70] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

71] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

72] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

73] What cannot gold do?

74] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

75] What is worth doing is worth doing well

76] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

77] Let us do evil that good may come

78] Soon gotten, soon spent

79] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

80] Bad news travels fast

81] Now is now, and then was then

82] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

83] Sow thin and mow thin

84] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

85] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

86] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

87] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

88] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

89] Light burden I heavy if far borne

90] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

91] Forewarned is forearmed

92] Little pitchers have big ears.

93] No man fears what he has seen grow

94] He who considers too much will perform little.

95] Needs must when the devil drives

96] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

97] The best fish swim near the bottom

98] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

99] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

100] Lovers are madmen