Famous Proverbs

1] Death is the grand leveler

2] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

3] Garbage in, garbage out

4] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

5] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

6] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

7] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

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

9] No man is content with his lot

10] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

11] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

12] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

13] Open a book and you profit by what you read

14] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

15] The mob tramples on the coward

16] What is money to a cat?

17] It is more pain to do nothing than something

18] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

19] Misery loves company.

20] Pleasing ware is half sold

21] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

22] Hungry bellies have no ears

23] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

24] Pleasant hours fly past

25] You can’t take it with you when you die

26] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

27] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

28] Beauty fades like a flower.

29] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

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

31] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

32] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

33] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

34] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

35] Do not limp before the lame

36] Evil to him who evil thinks.

37] You may know by a handful the whole sack

38] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

39] Everything would fain live

40] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

41] By falling we learn to go safely

42] Might overcome right.

43] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

44] The best of friends must part

45] The labourer is worthy of his hire

46] Empty vessels make the most sound

47] All’s well that ends well

48] In the land of hope there is never any winter

49] A good friend is my nearest relation

50] Love me, love the crows on my roof

51] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

52] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

53] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

54] Example, is better than precept

55] Jesters do oft prove prophets

56] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

57] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

58] Through hardship to the stars

59] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

60] More have repented speech than silence

61] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

62] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

63] Praises fill not the belly

64] Gossiping and lying go together

65] Sow thin and mow thin

66] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

67] The Pen is mightier than the sword

68] The sun shines upon all alike.

69] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

70] No one ought to judge in his own cause

71] All roads lead to Rome

72] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

73] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

74] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

75] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

76] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

77] Ale will make a cat speak

78] Threatened folk live long

79] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

80] Distance lends enchantment to the view

81] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

82] Of three main roads, take the middle one

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

84] Nature is conquered by obeying her

85] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

86] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

87] He is an ill husband who is not missed

88] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

89] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

90] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

91] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

92] A heavy purse makes a light heart

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

94] Kind hearts are more than coronets

95] The resolved mind has no cares

96] More haste, less speed

97] Much science, much sorrow

98] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

99] An old fox is not easily snared

100] When fortune smiles, embrace her.