Famous Proverbs

1] Look before you leap

2] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

3] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

4] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

5] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

6] An old fox is not easily snared

7] An open door may tempt a saint

8] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

9] Covetousness is the root of all evil

10] Nature is the true law

11] Strength grows stronger by being tried

12] Bad luck often brings good luck

13] Nothing succeeds like success

14] Practice what you preach

15] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

16] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

17] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

18] Many a little makes a mickle

19] Work expands so as to fill the time available

20] Wrong has no warrant

21] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

22] The cowl does not make the monk.

23] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

24] He who teaches learns

25] Might is right

26] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

27] Through hardship to the stars

28] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

29] The love of money is the root of all evil

30] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

31] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

32] A monk can’t shave his own head

33] Better late than never

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

35] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

36] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

37] Love delights in praise

38] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

39] What everybody says must be true

40] Two wrongs do not make a right

41] Ill news comes unsent for.

42] Valour delights in the test

43] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

44] To teach is to learn twice over

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

46] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

47] First things first

48] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

49] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

50] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

51] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

52] Share and share alike

53] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

54] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

55] Better be safe than sorry

56] Tell a lie and stick to it.

57] Often and little eating makes a man fat

58] A living dog is better than a dead lion

59] Little pitchers have big ears.

60] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

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

62] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

63] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

64] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

65] Experience is the mother of wisdom

66] Trust not the many-minded populace

67] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

68] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

69] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

70] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

71] A man without a wife is but half a man

72] It is not every question that deserves an answer

73] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

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

75] None but the brave deserves the fair

76] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

77] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

78] A man’s mother is his other God

79] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

80] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

81] High places have their precipices

82] Health and money go far

83] Do as say, not as I do

84] New brooms sweep clean

85] The word is far him who has patience

86] Trusting often makes fidelity

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

88] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

89] He that has a wife, has strife

90] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

91] When the cat is away, the mice will play

92] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

93] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

94] We soon believe what we desire

95] Virtue joints man to god

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

97] Even reckoning makes long friends

98] Lookers-on see most of the game

99] Least said, soonest mended

100] No flying without wings.