Famous Proverbs

1] Self do, self have

2] Seek and you shall find

3] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

4] One today is worth two tomorrows

5] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

6] Dreams go by contraries

7] Children learn to creep ere they can go

8] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

9] A good conscience is a sure card

10] The day obliterates the promise of the might

11] He is wise who looks ahead

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

13] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

14] Fine words dress ill deeds

15] Frugality is the mother of virtue

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

17] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

18] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

19] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

20] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

21] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

22] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

23] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

24] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

25] Not even Hercules could contend against two

26] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

27] Exchange is no robbery

28] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

29] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

30] The ass that brays most eats

31] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

32] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

33] Nature abhors a vacuum

34] Better an apple given than eaten

35] There is no accounting for tastes

36] Love sees no fault

37] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

38] He that pities another remembers himself

39] Weak things united become strong

40] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

41] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

42] First creep, then walk

43] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

44] Things are seldom what they seem.

45] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

46] Hunger breaks stone walls

47] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

48] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

49] Bare walls make giddy housewives

50] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

51] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

52] Wise men do not argue with idiots

53] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

54] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

55] It is the first step that is troublesome

56] Hope often deludes the foolish man

57] Little things are pretty

58] Marriage is a lottery

59] For a web begun, God sends the thread

60] Marriage makes or mars a man

61] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

62] Go while the going is good

63] No tie can oblige the perfidious

64] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

65] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

66] Men make houses, women make homes

67] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

68] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

69] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

70] Mirth is the sugar of life

71] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

72] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

73] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

74] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

75] Change brings life

76] A man’s studies pass in to his character

77] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

78] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

79] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

80] Love laughs at locksmiths

81] A good lawyer must be a great liar

82] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

83] He that is born a fool is never cured

84] The good intention excuses the bad action

85] No garden without its weeds.

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

87] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

88] Lucky men need no counsel

89] Do not limp before the lame

90] The game is not worth the candle

91] Necessity knows no law

92] The sign brings customers

93] Little wealth, little care

94] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

95] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

96] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

97] Dreams go by contraries

98] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

99] A fool always rushes to the fore.

100] Evil to him who evil thinks.