Famous Proverbs

1] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

2] Union is strength.

3] The tongue talks at the heads cost

4] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

5] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

6] The hole calls the thief

7] You cannot have your cake and eat it

8] Plain dealing is a jewel

9] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

10] Asking costs little

11] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

12] Like mother, like daughter

13] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

14] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

15] All covet all lose.

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

17] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

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

19] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

20] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

21] Variety takes away satiety

22] No choice amongst stinking fish

23] God is a sure paymaster

24] A stitch in time saves nine

25] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

26] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

27] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

28] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

29] Two wrongs do not make a right

30] No man is a hero to his valet

31] Dumb men get no lands

32] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

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

34] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

35] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

36] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

37] Second thoughts are best

38] Take things as you find them

39] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

40] In peace, prepare for war

41] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

42] Grief pent up will break the heart

43] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

44] Nature does nothing in vain

45] The company makes the feast

46] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

47] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

48] It is not work that kills but worry

49] Old habits die hard

50] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

51] He that is absent is soon forgotten

52] Appetite comes with eating

53] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

54] He that is born a fool is never cured

55] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

56] Money is power

57] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

58] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

59] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

60] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

61] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

62] Names are debts

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

64] Stolen goods never thrive

65] Dying men speak true

66] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

67] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

68] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

69] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

70] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

71] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

72] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

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

74] Through obedience learn to command.

75] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

76] Jesters do oft prove prophets

77] The unexpected always happens.

78] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

79] Dead men don’t bite

80] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

81] The more you have the more you want

82] God makes the back for the burden

83] The more you get, the more you want

84] It is good to follow the old fox

85] A single rose does not mean spring

86] One potter envies another

87] Coming events cast their shadows before

88] Many eyes upon the king

89] In indecision itself, grief is present.

90] The road to hell is paved with good action

91] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

92] Go while the going is good

93] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

94] He who excuses himself accuses himself

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

96] Curiosity killed the cat.

97] Ill news comes apace.

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

99] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

100] Wink at small faults