Famous Proverbs

1] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

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

3] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

4] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

5] The best things carried to excess are wrong

6] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

7] A good beginning makes a good ending.

8] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

9] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

10] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

11] Practice makes perfect

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

13] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

14] Six feet of earth make all men equal

15] The thread breaks where it is weakest

16] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

17] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

18] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

19] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

20] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

21] They brag most who can do least

22] An open door may tempt a saint

23] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

24] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

25] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

26] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

27] Don’t cry before you are hurt

28] No honest man ever repented his honesty

29] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

30] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

31] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

32] A man’s wealth is his enemy

33] No flying without wings.

34] Silence and thinking can no man offend

35] Great gain makes easy work

36] Gluttony kills more than the sword

37] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

38] Choose thy company before thy drink

39] Words and feathers the wind carries away

40] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

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

42] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

43] Once a knave, always a knave

44] Long absent, soon forgotten

45] A good friend is my nearest relation

46] Better be a fool than a knave

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

48] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

49] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

50] It is never too late to mend

51] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

52] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

53] Poverty is the mother of crime

54] Nothing comes from nothing

55] Laughter makes good blood

56] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

57] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

58] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

59] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

60] Money is the only monarch

61] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

62] One is what one eats

63] United we stand, divided we fall

64] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

65] Death keeps no calendar

66] There is no royal road to learning

67] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

68] Union (or Unity) is strength

69] Common fame is a liar

70] One is never too old to learn

71] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

72] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

73] The race is got by running

74] Man cannot live by bread alone

75] Past cure, past care

76] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

77] Diamond cuts diamond

78] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

79] Extremity of right is wrong

80] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

81] Ready money is a ready remedy

82] Money talks

83] Saying is one thing, and doing another

84] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

85] One fool praises another

86] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

87] Never too late to learn

88] Strike while the iron is hot

89] Every man to his trade.

90] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

91] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

92] Fear of death is worse than death itself

93] That which proves too much proves nothing

94] Better the foot slip than the tongue

95] Never too late to late to repent

96] An army marches on its stomach

97] They also serve who only stand and wait

98] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

99] Choose thy company before thy drink

100] Confess and be hanged