Famous Proverbs

1] The company makes the feast

2] You can’t take it with you when you die

3] No honest man ever repented his honesty

4] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

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

6] Great talkers are never great doers

7] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

8] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

9] All cats are grey in the dark

10] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

11] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

12] Her that is down need fear no fall

13] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

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

15] Out of debt, out of danger

16] To teach is to learn twice over

17] Excessive happiness produces pain

18] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

19] Spare the rod and spoil the child

20] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

21] You cannot serve God and Mammon

22] Live and let live

23] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

24] One cannot put back the clock

25] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

26] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

27] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

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

29] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

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

31] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

32] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

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

34] A knave and a fool never take thought

35] Dead dogs bark not

36] Bad excuses are worse than none.

37] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

38] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

39] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

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

41] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

42] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

43] Love cannot be compelled

44] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

45] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

46] One may change the place but not the mind.

47] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

48] A woman’s work is never done

49] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

50] All’s fish that comes to the net

51] 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.

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

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

54] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

55] The worse luck now, the better another time

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

57] Honesty is ill to thrive by

58] A rich man’s joke is always funny

59] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

60] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

61] Cheap is dear in the long run.

62] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

63] Love knows no limit

64] A little too late, is much too late

65] Anger managers everything badly.

66] Silence is also speech

67] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

68] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

69] A man’s mother is his other God

70] Everything must have a beginning

71] The devil knows many things because he is old

72] There is no royal road to learning

73] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

74] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

75] Speech is silver, silence is golden

76] Change brings life

77] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

78] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

79] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

80] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

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

82] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

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

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

85] Look at the bright side

86] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

87] The devil is not as black as he is painted

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

89] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

90] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

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

92] Failure teaches success

93] Crowns have cares

94] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

95] Kindness lies in one side of the house

96] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

97] Tell the truth and shame the devil

98] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

99] A merchant that gains not, loses

100] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom