Famous Proverbs

1] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

2] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

3] Money talks

4] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

5] Bad luck often brings good luck

6] The envious man shall never want woe

7] Too much curiosity lost paradise

8] It is too late to look up after you have collided

9] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

10] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

11] Laughter makes good blood

12] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

13] A jest breaks no bones

14] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

15] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

16] Bad news travels fast

17] Empty vessels make the most sound

18] An army marches on its stomach

19] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

20] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

21] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

22] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

23] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

24] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

25] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

26] See how the wind blows

27] There is no smoke without fire

28] Past cure, past care

29] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

30] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

31] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

32] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

33] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

34] A friend in need is a friend indeed

35] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

36] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

37] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

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

39] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

40] Everything new is fine

41] Threatened folk live long

42] God’s help is better than the early rising

43] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

44] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

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

46] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

47] You can’t clap with one hand

48] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

49] The good intention excuses the bad action

50] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

51] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

52] The weakest goes to the wall

53] Handsome is as handsome does

54] A change is as good as rest

55] Dying is as natural as living

56] Rust wastes more than use

57] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

58] Bind the sack before it be full

59] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

60] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

61] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

62] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

63] Care is no cure

64] A wicked man is his own hell

65] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

66] From word to deed is a great space

67] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

68] One is not smelt where all stink

69] The tide must be taken when it comes

70] Time flies

71] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

72] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

73] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

74] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

75] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

76] That which is easily done is soon believed

77] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

78] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

79] Like breeds like

80] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

81] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

82] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

83] You cannot unscramble eggs

84] Love is sweet torment

85] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

86] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

87] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

88] He who leaps high must take a long run

89] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

90] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

91] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

92] A hungry man is angry man

93] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

94] Soon hot, soon cold

95] You know what you can do till you try.

96] Nothing comes from nothing

97] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

98] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

99] There’s no place like home

100] Nothing costs so much as what is given us