Famous Proverbs

1] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

2] Books and friends should be few but good

3] It is more pain to do nothing than something

4] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

5] Trusting often makes fidelity

6] It takes two to make a quarrel

7] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

8] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

9] Words are but wind

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

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

12] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

13] More haste, less speed

14] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

15] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

16] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

17] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

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

19] Better at home than a mile from it

20] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

21] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

22] Better children weep than old men

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

24] Far from eye, far from heart

25] Too long burden makes weary bones

26] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

27] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

28] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

29] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

30] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

31] Success makes a fool seem wise.

32] He who leaps high must take a long run

33] It is good fishing in troubled waters

34] Love is without reason

35] Plain dealing is best

36] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

37] Honesty is ill to thrive by

38] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

39] Crows are all completely black

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

41] Poverty is not a crime

42] Either mend or end

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

44] God is a sure paymaster

45] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

46] A beggar can never be bankrupt

47] Too much curiosity lost paradise

48] Marriage is a lottery

49] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

50] He who pays the piper calls the tune

51] Better an apple given than eaten

52] No man is wise at all times

53] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

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

55] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

56] It is not every question that deserves an answer

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

58] Soon hot, soon cold

59] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

60] What is word but wind?

61] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

62] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

63] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

64] Self do, self have

65] The value of money is having it.

66] Fools live poor to die rich

67] Sickness soaks the purse

68] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

69] Penny and penny laid up will be many

70] He may find fault that cannot mend

71] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

72] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

73] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

74] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

75] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

76] He that eats least eats most

77] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

78] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

79] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

80] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

81] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

82] A good name is sooner lost than won

83] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

84] Necessity is the mother of invention

85] Variety is charming

86] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

87] Union is strength.

88] No good building without a good foundation.

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

90] Forgive and forget

91] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

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

93] No man limps because another is hurt

94] All is fair in love and war

95] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

96] He gives twice who gives quickly

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

98] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

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

100] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth