Famous Proverbs

1] Bad luck often brings good luck

2] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

3] What’s done cannot be undone

4] If one will not, another will

5] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

6] Few words are best

7] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

8] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

9] A woman’s work is never done

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

11] From word to deed is a great space

12] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

13] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

14] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

15] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

16] He who never was sick dies the first fit

17] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

18] Good fences make good neighbours

19] Hitch your wagon to a star

20] Death keeps no calendar

21] The hole calls the thief

22] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

23] Take heed is a fair thing

24] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

25] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

26] The ass that brays most eats

27] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

28] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

29] Money is the sinew of affairs

30] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

31] You cannot have it both ways

32] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

33] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

34] There is no fool like an old fool

35] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

36] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

37] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

38] What is word but wind?

39] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

40] Rust wastes more than use

41] Beware of a silent man and still water

42] There is nothing that costs less than civility

43] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

44] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

45] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

46] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

47] The age of miracles is past

48] When in doubt, do nothing

49] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

50] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

51] Blood is thicker than water

52] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

53] Empty vessels make the most sound

54] One foot is better than two crutches

55] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

56] Great hopes make great men

57] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

58] A jack of all traders is master of none

59] Health is great riches

60] A good name is better than a golden girdle

61] Give and take is fair play

62] One sword keeps another in the sheath

63] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

64] A gift much expected is paid, not given

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

66] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

67] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

68] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

69] III luck is good for something

70] Silence gives (or means) consent

71] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

72] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

73] In the land of hope there is never any winter

74] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

75] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

76] A wicked man is his own hell

77] There is a great difference between words and deeds

78] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

79] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

80] One must howl with the wolves

81] He that promises too much means nothing

82] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

83] He that lives ill, fear follows him

84] Every medal has its reverse

85] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

86] Good ware makes quick market

87] Silence gives (or means) consent

88] He that cannot ask, cannot live

89] The pen is the tongue of the hand

90] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

91] Small is the seed of every greatness

92] In wine there is truth

93] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

94] High places have their precipices

95] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

96] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

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

98] The last suitor wins the maid

99] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

100] Business is business