Famous Proverbs

1] The good intention excuses the bad action

2] Big words seldom go with good deeds

3] Haste makes waste

4] Talk much end err much

5] A burnt child dreads the fire

6] A wise man hears one word and understands two

7] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

8] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

9] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

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

11] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

12] Ambition makes people diligent

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

14] Knowledge is power

15] A fool believes everything

16] He who last, laughs longest.

17] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

18] Long looked for, comes at last

19] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

20] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

21] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

22] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

23] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

24] No man fears what he has seen grow

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

26] Petty laws breed great crimes

27] Go while the going is good

28] He that does most at once, does least

29] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

30] The envious man shall never want woe

31] Nature does nothing in vain

32] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

33] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

34] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

35] Love is without reason

36] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

37] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

38] There is no garden without its weeds

39] Call a spade a spade

40] Safety lies in the middle course

41] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

42] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

43] He laughs best who laughs last

44] It is easier to pull down than to build

45] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

46] Go not to hell for company

47] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

48] A rich man can do nothing wrong

49] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

50] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

51] Misery loves company.

52] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

53] He that praises himself, spatters himself

54] The best things come in small packages

55] Health and wealth create beauty

56] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

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

58] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

59] Love me, love the crows on my roof

60] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

61] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

62] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

63] Custom reconciles us to everything

64] Wine unveils the words of the heart

65] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

66] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

67] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

68] Bare walls make giddy housewives

69] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

70] Do as say, not as I do

71] A goose drinks as much as gander

72] The coward threatens only when he is safe

73] III counsel mars all

74] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

75] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

76] Good hand, good hire

77] Think on the end before you begin

78] Erring is not heating

79] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

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

81] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

82] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

83] Everything must have a beginning

84] The absent party is always to blame.

85] Children learn to creep ere they can go

86] Two blacks do not make a white

87] Creditors have better memories than debtors

88] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

89] What can’t be cured must be endured

90] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

91] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

92] Money refused loses its brightness

93] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

94] Between two stools you fall to the ground

95] Heaven helps those who help themselves

96] Great barkers are no biters

97] The word is far him who has patience

98] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

99] All things that great men do are well done

100] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.