Famous Proverbs

1] Success has many friends

2] Youth will have its course.

3] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

4] Many a little makes a mickle

5] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

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

7] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

8] A door must be either shut or open

9] Good to begin well, better to end well.

10] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

11] He who serves is not free

12] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

13] Who greases his way travels easily

14] Human blood is all of a colour

15] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

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

17] Knowledge is power

18] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

19] A great city, a great solitude

20] Everyone to his taste

21] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

22] One of these days is none of these days

23] He who does no good, does evil enough

24] Wishes can never fill a sack

25] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

26] Well begun is half done.

27] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

28] Great trees keep down the little ones

29] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

31] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

32] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

33] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

34] Forewarned is forearmed

35] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

36] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

37] A prophet is without honour in his own country

38] Give the devil his due

39] Crowns have cares

40] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

41] Let sleeping dogs lie

42] Many drops make a shower

43] Custom makes all things easy

44] One must howl with the wolves

45] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

46] He who excuses himself accuses himself

47] Slow help is no help

48] Great minds think alike

49] Grin and bear it

50] Almost’ never killed a fly.

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

52] Money is the root of all evil

53] A word before is worth two behind

54] Every Jack must have his Jill

55] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

56] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

57] No tie can oblige the perfidious

58] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

59] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

60] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

61] As you bake, so shall you eat.

62] Poverty parts friendship

63] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

64] The more cost, the more honour

65] The slowest barker is the surest biter

66] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

67] No one betrays himself by silence

68] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

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

70] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

71] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

72] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

73] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

74] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

75] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

76] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

77] A wicked man is his own hell

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

79] The labourer is worthy of his hire

80] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

81] None so deaf as those that will not hear

82] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

83] Borrowed garments never fit well

84] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

85] No remedy but patience

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

87] Money is the root of all evil

88] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

89] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

90] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

91] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

92] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

93] Poor folk fare the best

94] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

95] A good face is a letter of recommendation

96] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

97] Dogs bark as they are bred.

98] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

99] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

100] Every why has a wherefore