Famous Proverbs

1] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

2] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

3] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

4] He knows most who speaks least

5] Never do things by halves

6] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

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

8] Gossiping and lying go together

9] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

10] A bad padlock invites a picklock

11] The last drop makes the cup run over

12] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

13] He conquers who endures

14] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

15] An egg thief will become a camel thief

16] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

17] Ill news comes apace.

18] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

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

20] The rich knows not who is his friend

21] One man’s means another man’s poison

22] The voice is the best music

23] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

24] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

25] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

26] A friend is easier lost than found

27] The end crowns the work.

28] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

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

30] One good turn deserves another

31] Good ware makes quick market

32] Man cannot live by bread alone

33] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

34] The slowest barker is the surest biter

35] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

36] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

37] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

38] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

39] By falling we learn to go safely

40] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

41] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

42] All are not saints that go to church

43] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

44] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

45] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

46] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

47] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

48] An ill tongue may do much

49] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

50] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

51] Standing pools gather fifth

52] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

53] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

54] Nature hates all sudden changes

55] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

56] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

57] The eye is bigger than the belly

58] Don’t try to run before you walk

59] Great actions speak minds

60] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

61] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

62] Weeds need no sowing

63] It is not every question that deserves an answer

64] He that is born a fool is never cured

65] Never say die

66] The belly carries the legs

67] Do not kick against the pricks

68] What is deferred is not abandoned

69] Ill news comes apace.

70] Better to ask the way than go astray.

71] Better to wear out than rust out

72] True doctrines require no miracles

73] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

74] A single rose does not mean spring

75] You can’t clap with one hand

76] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

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

78] One sword keeps another in the sheath

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

80] Of evil manners, spring good laws

81] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

82] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

83] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

84] Prevention is better than cure

85] Dead men don’t bite

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

87] Nature is conquered by obeying her

88] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

89] We are all Adam’s children

90] Bread is the staff of life.

91] The mob has many heads but no brains

92] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

93] Nature is the true law

94] Affection blinds reason

95] Love is lawless.

96] Jack is as good as his master

97] At a good bargain thinks twice

98] Learning is the eye of the mind

99] No remedy but patience

100] A merchant that gains not, loses