Famous Proverbs

1] Half an egg is better than empty shell

2] One lie makes many

3] Truth has no need of rhetoric

4] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

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

6] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

7] Better sit still than rise and fall

8] A good name is a rich heritage

9] Think on the end before you begin

10] Where there are reeds, there is water

11] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

12] A light purse makes a heavy heart

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

14] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

15] Better no doctor at all than three.

16] Experience must be bought

17] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

18] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

19] Big fish eat little fish

20] Tempt not a desperate man

21] Accidents will happen

22] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

23] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

24] There is honour among thieves

25] There is no garden without its weeds

26] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

27] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

28] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

29] Birds once snared fear all bushes

30] You win some, you lose some

31] Necessity is the mother of invention

32] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

33] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

34] Children and fools have merry lives

35] Practice makes perfect

36] Patience is a virtue

37] It is more blessed to give than to receive

38] Keep some till further more come

39] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

40] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

41] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

42] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

43] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

44] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

45] He that burns most, shines most

46] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

47] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

48] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

49] Better say noting than no to the purpose

50] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

51] Debt is an evil conscience

52] Virtue joints man to god

53] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

54] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

55] Nothing comes from nothing

56] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

57] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

58] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

59] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

60] Practice what you preach

61] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

62] There’s always room at the top

63] Put not the bucket too often in the well

64] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

65] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

66] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

67] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

68] Everything is good in its season

69] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

70] Train the child in the way he should go.

71] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

72] The best wine comes from an old vessel

73] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

74] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

75] Anger managers everything badly.

76] What is a workman without his tools?

77] Great minds think alike

78] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

79] Sooner begun, sooner done

80] Man does what he can, and God what he will

81] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

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

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

84] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

85] Four eyes see better than two.

86] Bad news travels fast

87] Patience is a plaster for all sores

88] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

89] He that obey cannot command

90] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

91] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

92] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

93] Do as I say, not as I do

94] Never spur a willing horse

95] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

96] Mercy surpasses justice

97] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

98] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

99] Never grieve for what you cannot help

100] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet