Famous Proverbs

1] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

2] Eat to live and not live to eat.

3] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

4] Time lost cannot be recalled

5] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

6] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

7] Life is not all beer and skittles

8] Delays are not denials

9] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

10] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

11] Divide and rule

12] Good broth may be made in an old pot

13] Who greases his way travels easily

14] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

15] Nature is the true law

16] A healthy man is a successful man

17] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

18] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

19] Hope keeps man alive

20] Look before you leap

21] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

22] Ill gotten, ill spent

23] Do as say, not as I do

24] Rip not up old sores

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

26] The greatest talkers are the least doers

27] Waste not, want not

28] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

29] A man of courage never wants weapons

30] Necessity is the mother of invention

31] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

32] The cowl does not make the monk.

33] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

34] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

35] He that repairs not a part, builds all

36] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

37] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

38] Hunger is the teacher of many

39] A closed mouth catches no files

40] That which is easily done is soon believed

41] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

42] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

43] Better bend than break

44] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

45] The faulty stands on his guard

46] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

47] They say so’ is half a lie

48] Of three main roads, take the middle one

49] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

50] The bait hides the hook

51] Think on the end before you begin

52] Nature hates all sudden changes

53] It is good to follow the old fox

54] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

55] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

56] Bear with evil and expect good

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

58] Empty vessels make the most noise

59] Few words are best

60] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

61] A watched pot never boils

62] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

63] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

64] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

65] No man so good but another may be as good as he

66] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

67] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

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

69] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

70] A good husband makes a good wife

71] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

72] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

73] A man may bear till his back breaks

74] The king can do no wrong

75] The child is father of the man

76] By falling we learn to go safely

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

78] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

79] True gold is not transformed by fire

80] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

81] Share and share alike

82] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

83] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

84] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

85] It is ill striving against the stream

86] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

87] Nothing comes from nothing

88] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

89] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

90] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

91] Too far east is west

92] Art improves Nature

93] Grief pent up will break the heart

94] Crust is better than no bread

95] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

96] Better late than never

97] Long life has long misery

98] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

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

100] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.