Famous Proverbs

1] It is more blessed to give than to receive

2] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

3] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

4] Trusting often makes fidelity

5] Beware of no man more than himself

6] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

7] You are never too old to learn

8] Of two evils choose the lesser

9] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

10] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

11] Walls have ears

12] Common fame is a liar

13] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

14] He who envies admits his inferiority

15] Success has many friends

16] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

17] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

18] Little by little and bit by bit.

19] A fault confessed is half redressed

20] The first step is the hardest

21] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

22] Ready money is a ready remedy

23] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

24] At a good bargain thinks twice

25] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

26] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

27] After the extreme of cold comes spring

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

29] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

30] Bold men have generous hearts

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

32] You never know your luck

33] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

34] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

35] Confess and be hanged

36] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

37] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

38] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

39] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

40] Where there is whispering there is lying

41] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

42] It is a shame to be shameless

43] The good is often the enemy of the best

44] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

45] 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

46] All cats are grey in the dark

47] From word to deed is a great space

48] Rust wastes more than use

49] His bark is worse than his bite

50] Better be safe than sorry

51] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

52] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

53] Extremity of right is wrong

54] The slowest barker is the surest biter

55] Repentance comes too late

56] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

57] Like will to like

58] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

59] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

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

61] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

62] The early man ever borrows from the late man

63] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

64] The best go first

65] Cast not the first stone.

66] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

67] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

68] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

69] All things are possible with god

70] Every man has his price

71] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

72] No man is infallible

73] Ambition loses many a man

74] Dirty linen should be washed at home

75] Children and fools have merry lives

76] Love turns pimples

77] Have two strings to your bow

78] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

79] Precepts may lead but examples draw

80] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

81] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

82] Every man praises his own wares

83] Help a lame dog over a stile

84] Kill two birds with one stone

85] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

86] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

87] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

88] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

89] What cannot gold do?

90] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

91] We shall lie all alike in our graves

92] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

93] Where god will help, nothing does harm

94] Love is lawless.

95] Anger managers everything badly.

96] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

97] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

98] Young colts will canter.

99] Come with the wind, got with the water

100] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease