Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing crave, nothing have

2] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

3] Alms never make poor

4] It is not every question that deserves an answer

5] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

6] Hope often deludes the foolish man

7] Variety is the spice of life

8] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

9] Crowns have cares

10] Every path has a puddle

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

12] One kindness is the price of another

13] One lie makes many

14] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

15] Seek and you shall find

16] It takes all sorts to make a world

17] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

18] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

19] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

20] III luck is good for something

21] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

22] The mob tramples on the coward

23] Share and share alike

24] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

25] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

26] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

27] Dumb dogs are dangerous

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

29] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

30] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

31] Never spur a willing horse

32] The absent party is always to blame.

33] Love knows hidden paths

34] Wishes can never fill a sack

35] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

36] Wine is the best broom for trouble

37] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

38] The first step is the hardest

39] A good wife is a good prize

40] Home is home though it be never so homely

41] Crowns have cares

42] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

43] Look before you leap

44] One may change the place but not the mind.

45] He who touches pitch will be defiled

46] Don’t cry stinking fish

47] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

48] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

49] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

50] Better never begin than never make an end

51] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

52] The good is often the enemy of the best

53] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

54] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

55] Good luck beats early rising

56] Better at home than a mile from it

57] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

58] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

59] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

60] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

61] The greatest step is that out of doors

62] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

63] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

64] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

65] A cat has nine lives

66] Empty vessels make the most sound

67] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

68] What is a workman without his tools?

69] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

70] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

71] What everybody says must be true

72] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

73] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

74] Better be alone than in bad company

75] No news is good news

76] Desert and reward seldom keep company

77] A bribe will enter without knocking

78] Hunger is the teacher of many

79] Ambition makes people diligent

80] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

81] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

82] An old fox is not easily snared

83] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

84] Wisdom is better than strength

85] Pitchers have ears

86] Don’t kick against the pricks

87] There is many a true word spoken in jest

88] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

89] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

90] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

91] Success has many friends

92] He who comes late must eat what is left

93] Habit is second nature

94] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

95] Big fish eat little fish

96] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

97] Use makes mastery

98] Patience is the remedy of the world

99] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

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