Famous Proverbs

1] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

2] The first blow is half the battle

3] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

4] The resolved mind has no cares

5] He who demands does not command

6] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

7] Grin and bear it

8] He that pities another remembers himself

9] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

10] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

11] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

12] One thief will not rob another

13] He that repairs not a part, builds all

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

15] Silence gives (or means) consent

16] Health is great riches

17] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

18] He who serves is not free

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

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

21] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

22] Easy come, easy go

23] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

24] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

25] He that talks much, errs much

26] Without luck, it is better not to be born

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

28] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

29] Wine unveils the words of the heart

30] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

31] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

32] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

33] The devil looks after his own

34] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

35] One swallow does not make a summer

36] No man can serve two masters

37] He that eats well should do his duty well

38] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

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

40] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

41] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

42] Once a knave, always a knave

43] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

44] It is misery enough to have once been happy

45] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

46] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

47] What everybody says must be true

48] Weapons breed peace

49] A little impatience will spoil great plans

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

51] Don’t put the cart before the horse

52] He who leaps high must take a long run

53] He is rich that has few wants

54] Give the devil his due

55] The weeds overgrow the corn.

56] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

57] Dreams go by contraries

58] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

59] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

60] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

61] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

62] The envious man shall never want woe

63] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

64] Let us do evil that good may come

65] Nothing is given so freely as advice

66] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

67] The tailor makes the man

68] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

69] Ill comes often on the back worse

70] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

71] Success makes a fool seem wise.

72] Two heads are better than one

73] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

74] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

75] One hand washes the other

76] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

77] Wise men do not argue with idiots

78] The early man ever borrows from the late man

79] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

80] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

81] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

82] Things are seldom what they seem.

83] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

84] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

85] Love is lawless.

86] A good marksman may miss

87] One cannot love and be wise

88] Small is beautiful

89] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

90] The best fish swim near the bottom

91] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

92] Seek and you shall find

93] The unexpected always happens.

94] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

95] Love cannot be compelled

96] It costs more to do ill than to do well

97] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

98] Idle folks lack no excuses

99] Every dog is valiant at his won door

100] Like mother, like daughter