Famous Proverbs

1] Everything comes to him who waits

2] He that seeks trouble never misses

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

4] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

5] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

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

7] Grief pent up will break the heart

8] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

9] A willful man will have his way

10] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

11] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

12] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

13] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

14] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

15] Muck and money go together

16] The more wicked, the more lucky

17] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

18] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

19] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

20] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

21] He who envies admits his inferiority

22] Example is better than precept

23] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

24] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

25] Affection blinds reason

26] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

27] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

28] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

29] What is worth doing is worth doing well

30] Every medal has two sides

31] His bark is worse than his bite

32] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

33] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

34] Some are wise and some are otherwise

35] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

36] Asking costs little

37] He knows most who speaks least

38] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

39] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

40] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

41] Harp not for ever on the same string

42] Two blacks do not make a white

43] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

44] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

45] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

46] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

47] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

48] He that can stay. Obtains

49] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

50] Early sow, early mow

51] You can’t win them all

52] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

53] He that has a wife, has strife

54] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

55] Dead dogs bark not

56] Small is beautiful

57] Mere wishes are silly fishes

58] Live and let live

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

60] Do not wear out your welcome

61] Hunger is sharper than the sword

62] He that knows little often repeats it

63] Enough is as good as a feast

64] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

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

66] Delay is the antidote of anger

67] Poverty is the mother of crime

68] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

69] No man can serve two masters

70] Pleasant hours fly past

71] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

72] Let bygones be bygones

73] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

74] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

75] Take away fuel, take away flame

76] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

77] Things are seldom what they seem.

78] He that has an ill name is half hanged

79] A good conscience is a sure card

80] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

81] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

82] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

83] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

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

85] An oak is not felled at one stroke

86] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

87] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

88] Actions speak louder than words

89] A great city, a great solitude

90] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

91] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

92] Good broth may be made in an old pot

93] You cannot make bricks without straw

94] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

95] No honest man ever repented his honesty

96] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

97] A learned man has always riches in himself

98] No man is wise at all times

99] When meat is in anger is out

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