Famous Proverbs

1] The more you get, the more you want

2] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

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

4] He that blows best, bears away the horn

5] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

6] Marriage makes or mars a man

7] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

8] A word is enough to the wise

9] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

10] A merchant that gains not, loses

11] Care is no cure

12] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

13] Great oaks from little acorns grow

14] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

15] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

16] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

17] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

18] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

19] There is nothing lost by civility

20] Change of pasture makes fat calves

21] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

22] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

23] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

24] Great gain makes easy work

25] He that will thrive must rise at five

26] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

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

28] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

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

30] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

31] A house divided against itself cannot stand

32] Every may be has a may not be

33] Everything must have a beginning

34] Suffering does not manifest itself

35] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

36] Every dog has his day

37] Every bean has its black

38] Health without money is half an ague

39] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

40] Heaven helps those who help themselves

41] Hunger is the teacher of many

42] It is more pain to do nothing than something

43] Great actions speak minds

44] There are two sides to every question

45] The longest way round is the shortest way home

46] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

47] Never hit a man when he’s down

48] Never too late to late to repent

49] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

50] They can do least two boast loudest

51] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

52] Great oaks from little acorns grow

53] Human blood is all of a colour

54] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

55] Much babbling is not without offence

56] Good ware makes quick market

57] He that cannot ask, cannot live

58] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

59] There is no time like the present

60] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

61] Never say die

62] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

63] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

64] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

65] Sooner begun, sooner done

66] The mob tramples on the coward

67] A friend is easier lost than found

68] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

69] Children and chickens must be always picking

70] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

71] It is too late to look up after you have collided

72] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

73] Well begun is half done.

74] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

75] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

76] Never too late to learn

77] You cannot unscramble eggs

78] Forgive and forget

79] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

80] What has been, may be

81] There is a black sheep in every flock

82] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

83] Like mistress, like maid

84] One may change the place but not the mind.

85] Slow but sure wins the race

86] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

87] There is nothing permanent except change

88] Go not to hell for company

89] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

90] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

91] Jack is as good as his master

92] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

93] Little and often fills the purse

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

95] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

96] Take things as they come

97] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

98] There are more men threatened than stricken

99] A good word stills great anger

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