Famous Proverbs

1] Truth is stranger than fiction

2] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

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

4] Small is the seed of every greatness

5] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

6] Every bean has its black

7] It is good to follow the old fox

8] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

9] Diligence is the mother of good luck

10] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

11] The day obliterates the promise of the might

12] The darkest place is under the candlestick

13] The hole calls the thief

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

15] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

16] A good conscience is a sure card

17] A man can do no more than he can

18] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

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

20] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

21] Men make houses, women make homes

22] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

23] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

24] Enough is enough

25] He who wills the end, Wills the means

26] Half a word is enough for a wise man

27] In wine there is truth

28] What everybody says must be true

29] A word spoken is past recalling

30] Better an open enemy than a false friend

31] Anything will fit a naked man.

32] Don’t kick against the pricks

33] Call no man happy till he is dead

34] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

35] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

36] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

37] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

38] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

39] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

40] He has not lost all who has one cast left

41] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

42] The best things come in small packages

43] Many drops make a shower

44] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

45] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

46] Law makers should not be law breakers

47] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

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

49] He is wise who looks ahead

50] Home is where the heart is

51] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

52] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

53] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

54] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

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

56] Discontent is the first step in progress

57] Take away fuel, take away flame

58] The faulty stands on his guard

59] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

60] What is new cannot be true

61] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

62] No man can serve two masters

63] Judge not the tree by its bark

64] Will is no skill

65] All our pomp the earth covers

66] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

67] The devil is not as black as he is painted

68] Ambition loses many a man

69] In everything consider the end

70] Use makes mastery

71] Virtue is the only true nobility

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

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

74] Past cure, past care

75] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

76] A bully is always a coward

77] It is no use crying over spilt milk

78] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

79] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

80] The king can do no wrong

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

82] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

83] Better are small fish than an empty dish

84] Fair without, false within

85] A good servant must have good wages

86] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

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

88] Seeing is believing

89] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

90] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

91] Will is no skill

92] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

93] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

94] Thrift is a great revenue

95] Either mend or end

96] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

97] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

98] One man’s loss is another’s gain

99] Words are but wind

100] The deed comes back upon the doer.