Famous Proverbs

1] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

2] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

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

4] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

5] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

6] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

7] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

8] Much science, much sorrow

9] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

10] He that is born a fool is never cured

11] A woman’s work is never done

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

13] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

14] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

15] He that wants health wants all

16] Be just before you are generous

17] A good conscience is a soft pillow

18] Ready money is a ready remedy

19] Money is power

20] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

21] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

22] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

23] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

24] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

25] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

26] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

27] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

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

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

30] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

31] A good garden may have some ill weeds

32] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

33] A great city, a great solitude

34] Give and take is fair play

35] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

36] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

37] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

38] He may find fault that cannot mend

39] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

40] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

41] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

42] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

43] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

44] A good face is a letter of recommendation

45] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

46] Handsome is as handsome does

47] The longest night will have an end

48] The unexpected always happens.

49] What’s done is done

50] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

51] Everyone to his taste

52] A knave and a fool never take thought

53] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

54] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

55] Never hit a man when he’s down

56] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

57] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

58] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

59] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

60] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

61] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

62] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

63] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

64] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

65] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

66] Nothing succeeds like success

67] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

68] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

69] No tie can oblige the perfidious

70] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

71] Silence is a woman’s best garment

72] It takes two to make a quarrel

73] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

74] The mob tramples on the coward

75] A good conscience is a constant feast

76] We shall lie all alike in our graves

77] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

78] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

79] Custom reconciles us to everything

80] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

81] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

82] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

83] First impressions are half the battle

84] Better late than never, but better never late

85] Four eyes see more than two

86] Great talkers are never great doers

87] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

88] Even a worm will turn

89] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

90] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

91] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

92] One today is worth two tomorrows

93] Lucky men need no counsel

94] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

95] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

96] Example is the greatest of all seducers

97] Money makes the man

98] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

99] First try and then trust

100] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.