Famous Proverbs

1] No answer is also an answer

2] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

3] One man’s means another man’s poison

4] A piece of churchyard fits every body

5] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

6] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

7] Of evil manners, spring good laws

8] Don’t tell tales out of school

9] The righteous man sins before an open chest

10] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

11] Step by step the ladder is ascended

12] Do it now

13] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

14] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

15] A good drink makes the old young

16] Dead dogs bark not

17] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

18] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

19] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

20] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

21] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

22] Beauty is only skin deep

23] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

24] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

25] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

26] Come with the wind, got with the water

27] Lavishness is not generosity

28] Enough is enough

29] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

30] Time and tide wait for no man

31] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

32] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

33] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

34] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

35] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

36] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

37] Children learn to creep ere they can go

38] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

39] Life means strife

40] The coward threatens only when he is safe

41] The young will sow their wild oats

42] When angry, count a hundred

43] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

44] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

45] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

46] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

47] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

48] When the word is out it belongs to another

49] He conquers who endures

50] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

51] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

52] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

53] Nature abhors a vacuum

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

55] He that is down need fear no fall

56] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

57] Precepts may lead but examples draw

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

59] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

60] Words bind men

61] Choose thy company before thy drink

62] Covetousness is the root of all evil

63] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

64] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

65] Expectation is better than realisation

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

67] The devil looks after his own

68] An open door may tempt a saint

69] Variety is charming

70] Virtue is its own reward

71] Despair gives courage to a coward

72] There is truth in wine

73] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

74] Things past cannot be recalled

75] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

76] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

77] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

78] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

79] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

80] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

81] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

82] Long life has long misery

83] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

84] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

85] As you sow, so shall you reap

86] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

87] Many eyes upon the king

88] First try and then trust

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

90] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

91] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

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

93] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

94] Give a loan and buy quarrel

95] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

96] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

97] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

98] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

99] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

100] He who serves is not free