Famous Proverbs

1] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

2] Variety is the spice of life

3] Pursuits become habits

4] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

5] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

6] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

7] A little body often harbours a great soul

8] Spend and be free, but make no waste

9] Wise men are caught in wiles

10] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

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

12] What must be must be

13] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

14] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

15] You cannot make a crab walk straight

16] By falling we learn to go safely

17] God provides for him that trusts

18] Cut your coat according to your cloth

19] He laughs best who laughs last

20] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

21] The best go first

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

23] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

24] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

25] A bad excuse is better than none at all

26] All things are possible with god

27] His own ingenuity pricks him.

28] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

29] Fish and guests smell in three days

30] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

31] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

32] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

33] It is best to be on the safe side

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

35] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

36] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

37] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

38] Misfortune makes foes of friends

39] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

40] Much law but little justice

41] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

42] Tomorrow never comes

43] Never judge from appearances

44] Hope is the poor man’s bread

45] An old horse knows the route

46] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

47] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

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

49] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

50] A constant guest is never welcome

51] To teach is to learn twice over

52] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

53] A strong town is not won in an hour

54] An egg thief will become a camel thief

55] A willful man will have his way

56] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

57] A burnt child dreads the fire

58] He that obey cannot command

59] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

60] Fair play’s a jewel

61] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

62] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

63] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

64] Grin and bear it

65] It is not work that kills but worry

66] Take the tone of the company you are in

67] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

68] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

69] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

70] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

71] Lookers-on see more than players

72] Woes unite foes

73] Valour delights in the test

74] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

75] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

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

77] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

78] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

79] We soon believe what we desire

80] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

81] Failure teaches success

82] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

83] Pleasing ware is half sold

84] A good word stills great anger

85] Enough is as good as a feast

86] Self-praise is no recommendation

87] Little things please little minds

88] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

89] Few words are best

90] What everybody says must be true

91] Lavishness is not generosity

92] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

93] New lords, new laws

94] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

95] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

96] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

97] One can’t help many, but many can help one

98] Divide and rule

99] A good beginning is half the battle.

100] Children and fools cannot lie.