Famous Proverbs

1] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

2] Success has many friends

3] Nature surpasses art

4] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

5] As you brew, so shall you drink.

6] Human blood is all of a colour

7] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

8] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

9] Four eyes see more than two

10] A bad padlock invites a picklock

11] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

12] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

13] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

14] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

15] Have two strings to your bow

16] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

17] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

18] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

19] Men are not to be measured in inches

20] You can’t tell a book by its cover

21] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

22] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

23] The world is full of fools

24] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

25] Come with the wind, got with the water

26] Enough is as good as a feast

27] A closed mouth catches no files

28] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

29] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

30] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

31] It’s dogged that does it

32] A willful man will have his way

33] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

34] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

35] He that burns most, shines most

36] High places have their precipices

37] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

38] Like mistress, like maid

39] He who wills the end, Wills the means

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

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

42] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

43] Things past cannot be recalled

44] Money can influence even the spirits

45] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

46] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

47] A beggar can never be bankrupt

48] Poor men’s words have little weight

49] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

50] Life begins only in success

51] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

52] The greatest step is that out of doors

53] What is word but wind?

54] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

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

56] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

57] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

58] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

59] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

60] Life is short and time is swift

61] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

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

63] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

64] A light purse makes a heavy heart

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

66] No day so clear but has dark clouds

67] An oak is not felled at one stroke

68] Words are but wind

69] All things that great men do are well done

70] One reason is as good as fifty

71] Great gain makes easy work

72] It is good fishing in troubled waters

73] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

74] Prospect is often better than possession

75] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

76] Poverty parts friendship

77] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

78] A fault once denied is twice committed

79] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

80] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

81] Call no man happy till he is dead

82] All’s fish that comes to the net

83] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

84] Error cannot be defended but by error

85] Wise men do not argue with idiots

86] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

87] Love cannot be compelled

88] Fear of death is worse than death itself

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

90] He that talks much, errs much

91] Love and business teach eloquence

92] Many dishes make many diseases

93] Old cattle breed not

94] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

95] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

96] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

97] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

98] Money has no smell

99] The weeds overgrow the corn.

100] The resolved mind has no cares