Famous Proverbs

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

2] Liars should have good memories

3] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

4] Slow and steady wins the race

5] Spend and be free, but make no waste

6] A gift much expected is paid, not given

7] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

8] Company in misery makes it light

9] Will is no skill

10] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

11] Desire beautifies what is ugly

12] First impressions are half the battle

13] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

14] It’s a long lane that has no turning

15] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

16] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

17] Well begun is half done.

18] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

19] Think on the end before you begin

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

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

22] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

23] A man without a wife is but half a man

24] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

25] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

26] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

27] Every beginning is hard

28] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

29] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

30] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

31] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

32] Money is the sinew of affairs

33] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

34] No good building without a good foundation.

35] Custom makes all things easy

36] The resolved mind has no cares

37] He that does most at once, does least

38] Might is right

39] A little help is worth a deal of pity

40] Better bend than break

41] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

42] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

43] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

44] Marriage is a lottery

45] Evil to him who evil thinks.

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

47] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

48] There is honour among thieves

49] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

50] Youth will have its course.

51] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

52] He that sows virtue reaps fame

53] The early bird catches the worm

54] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

55] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

56] A bad workman always blames his tools

57] Birds once snared fear all bushes

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

59] Fair face, foul heart

60] Necessity breaks iron

61] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

62] If anything can go wrong, it will

63] Discretion is the better part of valour

64] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

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

66] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

67] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

68] A friend in need is a friend indeed

69] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

70] He that brings good news, knocks hard

71] Youth will have its course.

72] Call a spade a spade

73] Children and fools cannot lie.

74] He is lifeless that is faultless

75] An evil life is a kind of death.

76] The cowl does not make the monk.

77] A good beginning is half the battle.

78] A knave and a fool never take thought

79] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

80] Bad excuses are worse than none.

81] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

82] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

83] Love me, love the crows on my roof

84] Better unborn than untaught

85] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

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

87] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

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

89] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

90] The company makes the feast

91] Advice when most needed is least heeded

92] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

93] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

94] As you brew, so shall you drink.

95] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

96] Let the buyer beware

97] Fools grow without watering.

98] Rats know the ways of rats

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

100] Don’t meet trouble half-way