Famous Proverbs

1] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

2] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

3] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

4] The greatest talkers are the least doers

5] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

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

7] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

8] Nature abhors a vacuum

9] One reason is as good as fifty

10] He that pities another remembers himself

11] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

12] Love will find a way

13] Learn to walk before you run

14] Things are only worth one makes them worth

15] Great oaks from little acorns grow

16] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

17] One today is worth two tomorrows

18] Nature will have her course

19] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

20] Wishes can never fill a sack

21] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

22] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

23] Care brings grey hair.

24] Nature is the true law

25] The unexpected always happens.

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

27] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

28] There is truth in wine

29] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

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

31] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

32] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

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

34] It is good to follow the old fox

35] Look at the bright side

36] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

37] No land without stones, or meat without bones

38] Much learning makes men mad

39] Nearest the heart comes out first

40] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

41] Fortune is blind

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

43] Necessity is a powerful weapon

44] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

45] By his deeds we know a man

46] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

47] All good things must come to an end

48] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

49] No pain, no cure

50] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

51] It is easy to be wise after the event

52] Go not to hell for company

53] Never say die

54] He thinks not well that thinks not again

55] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

56] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

57] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

58] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

59] Content is better than riches

60] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

61] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

62] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

63] Slow help is no help

64] Slow and steady wins the race

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

66] Who greases his way travels easily

67] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

68] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

69] Love me, love the crows on my roof

70] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

71] There are more ways to the wood than one.

72] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

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

74] Forgive and forget

75] New brooms sweep clean

76] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

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

78] Every man praises his own wares

79] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

80] Riches along make no men happy

81] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

82] Fear of death is worse than death itself

83] A bully is always a coward

84] Everything comes to him who waits

85] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

86] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

87] There’s no great loss without some gain

88] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

89] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

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

91] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

92] He who has seen little marvels much

93] He who hesitates is lost

94] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

95] Forecast is better than work-hard

96] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

97] There is many a fair thing full false

98] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

99] The devil is not as black as he is painted

100] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.