Famous Proverbs

1] Men are known by the company they keep.

2] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

3] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

4] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

5] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

6] Crust is better than no bread

7] Parents are patterns

8] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

9] Ill news comes unsent for.

10] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

11] A healthy man is a successful man

12] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

13] Coming events cast their shadows before

14] Every beginning is hard

15] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

16] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

17] He gives twice who gives quickly

18] Many drops make a shower

19] Patience is a plaster for all sores

20] Harp not for ever on the same string

21] Take things as they come

22] Better an apple given than eaten

23] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

24] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

25] No road is long with good company

26] Learn to walk before you run

27] Desires are nourished by delays

28] Children speak only words they have heard.

29] Better beg than steal.

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

31] Good hand, good hire

32] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

33] A fool believes everything

34] All lay loads on a willing horse

35] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

36] Flesh is frail

37] The eye is bigger than the belly

38] Go while the going is good

39] All things for not all persons

40] He who demands does not command

41] A little help is worth a deal of pity

42] The tongue stings

43] A closed mouth catches no files

44] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

45] Little things are pretty

46] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

47] Brevity is the soul of wit

48] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

49] The dog is a lion in his own house

50] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

51] The biter is sometimes bit

52] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

53] Health is better than wealth

54] No one betrays himself by silence

55] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

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

57] Take time by the forelock

58] Eat to live and not live to eat.

59] A golden key opens every door

60] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

61] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

62] Let not your tongue run at rover

63] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

64] See how the wind blows

65] Practice is the science that gives confidence

66] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

67] A great city, a great solitude

68] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

69] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

70] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

71] An obedient wife commands her husband

72] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

73] Boys will be boys

74] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

75] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

76] There is many a fair thing full false

77] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

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

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

80] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

81] Necessity knows no law

82] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

83] A true man and a thief think not the same

84] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

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

86] He that burns most, shines most

87] Do unto others as they should do unto you

88] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

89] A man’s mother is his other God

90] One swallow does not make a summer

91] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

92] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

93] An ill tongue may do much

94] It is too late to look up after you have collided

95] 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.

96] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

97] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

98] Little pitchers have big ears.

99] It is a great victory that comes without blood

100] The race is got by running