Famous Proverbs

1] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

2] It is well to live that one may learn

3] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

4] He that is born a fool is never cured

5] All is fair in love and war

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

7] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

8] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

9] Dying men speak true

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

11] All’s fish that comes to the net

12] One of these days is none of these days

13] All things that great men do are well done

14] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

15] Will is the cause of woe

16] None so blind as those who will not see

17] Dreams are lies

18] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

19] God makes the back for the burden

20] Life is short and time is swift

21] The longest way round is the shortest way home

22] He that is down need fear no fall

23] Bear with evil and expect good

24] Virtue is the only true nobility

25] Well done is better than well said

26] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

27] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

28] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

29] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

30] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

31] Not even Hercules could contend against two

32] The more you get, the more you want

33] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

34] You cannot make bricks without straw

35] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

36] Fine feathers make fine birds.

37] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

38] In peace, prepare for war

39] No news is good news

40] Poverty is no sin

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

42] An angry man is not fit to pray

43] Better ask the way than go astray

44] Don’t cry stinking fish

45] Hope often deludes the foolish man

46] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

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

48] After a storm comes a calm

49] Waste not, want not

50] An old fox is not easily snared

51] Failure teaches success

52] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

53] Every dog is valiant at his won door

54] Things are only worth one makes them worth

55] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

56] Love delights in praise

57] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

58] Plain dealing is a jewel

59] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

60] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

61] What everybody says must be true

62] So many men, so many opinions

63] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

64] Standing pools gather fifth

65] Danger makes men devout

66] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

67] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

68] A knave and a fool never take thought

69] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

70] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

71] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

72] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

73] Too many cooks spoil the broth

74] Never too late to repent

75] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

76] Young colts will canter.

77] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

78] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

79] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

80] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

81] If today will not, tomorrow may

82] The garment worn determines how one is served

83] He that blows best, bears away the horn

84] Better children weep than old men

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

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

87] A great city, a great solitude

88] More haste, less speed

89] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

90] Success makes a fool seem wise.

91] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

92] III luck is good for something

93] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

94] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

95] Blue are the far away hills

96] The love of money is the root of all evil

97] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

98] No tie can oblige the perfidious

99] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

100] None so busy as those who do nothing.