Famous Proverbs

1] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

2] Children speak only words they have heard.

3] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

4] Dying is as natural as living

5] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

6] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

7] Precept begins, examples accomplish

8] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

9] The receiver is as bad as the thief

10] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

11] Discretion is the better part of valour

12] Desert and reward seldom keep company

13] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

14] Nothing succeeds like success

15] None can guess the jewel by the casket

16] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

17] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

18] Common fame is a liar

19] No remedy but patience

20] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

21] A goose drinks as much as gander

22] Anger without power is folly

23] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

24] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

25] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

26] Time flies

27] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

28] Six feet of earth make all men equal

29] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

30] Let us do evil that good may come

31] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

32] Gifts blind the eyes.

33] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

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

35] Truth is stranger than fiction

36] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

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

38] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

39] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

40] Do unto others as they should do unto you

41] Still waters run deep

42] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

43] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

44] All truths are not to be told

45] Soon gotten, soon spent

46] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

47] Honesty is the best policy

48] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

49] It is not work that kills but worry

50] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

51] To err is human; to forgive, divine

52] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

53] Variety is the spice of life

54] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

55] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

56] A fault confessed is half redressed

57] Share and share alike

58] The course of true love never did run smooth

59] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

60] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

61] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

62] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

63] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

64] Love can find a way

65] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

66] Men are not to be measured in inches

67] The highest tree has the greatest fall

68] He that knows little often repeats it

69] All meat pleases not all mouths

70] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

71] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

72] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

73] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

74] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

75] What is new cannot be true

76] Praises fill not the belly

77] Wise men silent, fools talk

78] The borrower is servant to the lender

79] Practice is the science that gives confidence

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

81] A little is better than none

82] Even Homer sometimes nods

83] Lavishness is not generosity

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

85] He that has plenty of goods will have more

86] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

87] Necessity is the mother of invention

88] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

89] Procrastination is the thief of time

90] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

91] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

92] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

93] The cobbler should stick to his last

94] One fool praises another

95] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

96] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

97] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

98] Desert and reward seldom keep company

99] No man is wise at all times

100] The pen is the tongue of the hand