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Famous Proverbs

1] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept
2] A good dog deserves a good bone
3] Where god will help, nothing does harm
4] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains
5] Respect is greater from a distance
6] Man punishes the action but God the intention
7] One must be a servant before one can be a master
8] Big fish eat little fish
9] Debt is an evil conscience
10] A wounded reputation is seldom cured
11] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks
12] It is all in the day’s work
13] Patience is the remedy of the world
14] Every law has a loophole
15] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance
16] It is good to follow the old fox
17] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.
18] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.
19] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two
20] Slow but sure wins the race
21] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long
22] Dog does not eat dog
23] Every flow must have its ebb
24] Might overcome right.
25] All are not thieves that dogs bark at
26] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge
27] Nature abhors a vacuum
28] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs
29] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them
30] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep
31] Every man has his price
32] Custom reconciles us to everything
33] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams
34] Share and share alike
35] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes
36] If there is no wind, the trees will not move
37] The good die young.
38] Wise men silent, fools talk
39] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair
40] He that ventures not fails not.
41] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard
42] Nothing ventured, nothing gained
43] Sweet are the uses of adversity
44] Easter so longed for is gone in a day
45] The great fish eat up the small
46] Call no man happy till he is dead
47] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
48] A straw will show which way the wind blows.
49] A knave and a fool never take thought
50] Better to ask the way than go astray.
51] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount
52] Fortune is blind
53] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease
54] First impressions are the most lasting
55] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage
56] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son
57] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand
58] The loftiest towers rise from the ground
59] No wrong without a remedy
60] Cowards die many times before their deaths
61] Four eyes see more than two
62] Everyone puts his fault on the times.
63] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours
64] There is no blindness like ignorance
65] Poverty is the mother of crime
66] The hasty leaps over his opportunities
67] He who touches pitch will be defiled
68] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed
69] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.
70] Think of ease, but work on.
71] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.
72] Muck and money go together
73] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing
74] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger
75] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.
76] Man cannot live by bread alone
77] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
78] Small is beautiful
79] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please
80] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil
81] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most
82] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.
83] All’s fish that comes to the net
84] III counsel mars all
85] Wise men are caught in wiles
86] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own
87] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.
88] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day
89] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry
90] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.
91] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
92] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours
93] Ready money is a ready remedy
94] The sign brings customers
95] Good counsel never comes amiss
96] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time
97] Work won’t kill but worry will.
98] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please
99] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.
100] Goodness is better than beauty



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