Famous Proverbs

1] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

2] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

3] He may find fault that cannot mend

4] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

5] Pursuits become habits

6] A woman’s work is never done

7] He that has good money, gives few alms

8] Spare the rod and spoil the child

9] Better late than never

10] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

11] Common fame is seldom to blame

12] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

13] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

14] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

15] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

16] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

17] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

18] One fool praises another

19] Every man has his price

20] He who comes late must eat what is left

21] White there’s life there’s hope

22] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

23] Trust not the many-minded populace

24] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

25] Don’t cry for the moon

26] Be just before you are generous

27] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

28] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

29] A cat may look at a king

30] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

31] All covet all lose.

32] God sends cold after Clothes

33] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

34] Give and take is fair play

35] Take things as they come

36] He that brings good news, knocks hard

37] The unexpected always happens.

38] Friends are thieves of time

39] Travel broadens the mind

40] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

41] Do as the friar says, not as he does

42] Spare the rod and spoil the child

43] Findings are keepings

44] In the land of hope there is never any winter

45] Ambition loses many a man

46] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

47] Company in misery makes it light

48] A knave and a fool never take thought

49] A good face is a letter of recommendation

50] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

51] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

52] Honour is the reward of virtue

53] As soon as there is life there is danger

54] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

55] An angry man is not fit to pray

56] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

57] In indecision itself, grief is present.

58] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

59] Death alone can kill hope

60] The thread breaks where it is weakest

61] Little things are pretty

62] Hasty work, double work,

63] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

64] The great would have none great, and the little all little

65] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

66] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

67] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

68] Love conquers all

69] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

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

71] Misfortunes never come singly

72] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

73] Choose thy company before thy drink

74] One good turn deserves another

75] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

76] A wicked man is his own hell

77] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

78] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

79] All must be as God will

80] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

81] Like will to like

82] Men do more things through habit than reason

83] Like master, like man

84] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

85] So many countries, so many customs

86] Wiles help weak folk

87] Seeing is believing

88] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

89] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

90] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

91] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

92] A good example is the best sermon

93] The weeds overgrow the corn.

94] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

95] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

96] Dead men don’t bite

97] No hair so small but has his shadow

98] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

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

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