Famous Proverbs

1] Love is never without jealousy

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

3] In doing we learn.

4] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

5] What can’t be cured must be endured

6] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

7] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

8] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

9] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

10] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

11] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

12] Where there is no trust there is no love

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

14] One today is worth two tomorrows

15] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

16] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

17] Work smart; don’t work hard

18] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

19] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

20] Riches along make no men happy

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

22] Lucky men need no counsel

23] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

24] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

25] Death alone can kill hope

26] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

27] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

28] A good name is better than a golden girdle

29] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

30] Appetite comes with eating

31] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

32] Far fowls have fair feather

33] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

34] He that blows best, bears away the horn

35] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

36] First catch your hare

37] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

38] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

39] All meat pleases not all mouths

40] Better an apple given than eaten

41] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

42] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

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

44] Good luck beats early rising

45] Give a loan and buy quarrel

46] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

47] So many men, so many opinions

48] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

49] Words are but wind

50] All things that great men do are well done

51] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

52] Content is more than a kingdom

53] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

54] There is no smoke without fire

55] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

56] A crowd is not company

57] Common fame is a liar

58] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

59] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

60] Better never begin than never make an end

61] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

62] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

63] Good luck beats early rising

64] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

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

66] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

67] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

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

69] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

70] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

71] A beggar can never be bankrupt

72] Never too late to late to repent

73] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

74] He that blows best, bears away the horn

75] All must be as God will

76] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

77] You may have too much of a good thing

78] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

79] Facts are stubborn things

80] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

81] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

82] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

83] Seek and you shall find

84] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

85] Open confession is good for the soul

86] Fool’s haste is no speed

87] Better beg than steal.

88] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

89] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

90] Full of courtesy, full of craft

91] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

92] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

93] Between two stools you fall to the ground

94] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

95] East or west, home is best

96] All things are possible with god

97] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

98] The axe falls on a straight tree first

99] He that wants health wants all

100] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.