Famous Proverbs

1] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

2] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

3] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

4] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

5] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

6] Give a loan and buy quarrel

7] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

8] A good husband makes a good wife

9] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

10] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

11] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

12] He that burns most, shines most

13] There is no royal road to learning

14] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

15] He who last, laughs longest.

16] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

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

18] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

19] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

20] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

21] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

22] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

23] Young colts will canter.

24] A cat has nine lives

25] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

26] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

27] Wise men silent, fools talk

28] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

29] Wiles help weak folk

30] Change of pasture makes fat calves

31] Friends are thieves of time

32] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

33] There is nothing that costs less than civility

34] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

35] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

36] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

37] Good is good but better carries it

38] Anger managers everything badly.

39] Opportunity makes the thief

40] Slow but sure wins the race

41] The cobbler should stick to his last

42] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

43] An old fox is not easily snared

44] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

45] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

46] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

47] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

48] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

49] Every commodity has its discommodity

50] Give and spend, and God will send

51] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

52] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

53] In the land of hope there is never any winter

54] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

55] Money isn’t everything

56] Learning is the eye of the mind

57] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

58] No news is good news

59] Truth is god’s daughter

60] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

61] Everything in moderation.

62] The early man ever borrows from the late man

63] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

64] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

65] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

66] The end crowns the work.

67] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

68] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

69] Good hand, good hire

70] Through obedience learn to command.

71] That which proves too much proves nothing

72] New lords, new laws

73] Patience is the remedy of the world

74] The early man ever borrows from the late man

75] 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

76] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

77] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

78] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

79] Better eye sore than al blind

80] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

81] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

82] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

83] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

84] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

85] Thrift is a great revenue

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

87] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

88] Content is more than a kingdom

89] Every beginning is hard

90] Great gain makes easy work

91] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

92] He may find fault that cannot mend

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

94] Divide and rule

95] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

96] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

97] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

98] Even water has its ebb and flow

99] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

100] The slowest barker is the surest biter