Famous Proverbs

1] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

2] Many words, many buffets

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

4] Take things as they come

5] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

6] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

7] Lose a leg rather than a life

8] Fools rejoice at promises

9] To teach is to learn twice over

10] Don’t play with fire

11] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

12] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

13] God’s lambs will play.

14] It is easier to pull down than to build

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

16] Opportunity makes the thief

17] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

18] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

19] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

20] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

21] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

22] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

23] Never refuse a good offer

24] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

25] Loyalty is worth more than money

26] Findings are keepings

27] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

28] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

29] Crowns have cares

30] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

31] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

32] Live and Learn

33] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

34] Well done is better than well said

35] Plain dealing is a jewel

36] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

37] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

38] A bully never grows up.

39] The pot calls the kettle black

40] Beauty opens locked doors

41] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

42] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

43] Handsome is as handsome does

44] Wrong has no warrant

45] None so busy as those who do nothing.

46] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

47] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

48] Like master, like man

49] Where there is peace, there is blessing

50] Whatever man has done, man can do

51] The more you have the more you want

52] Names are debts

53] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

54] He who sows, trusts in God

55] Good fences make good neighbours

56] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

57] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

58] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

59] Life means strife

60] A good heart conquers ill fortune

61] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

62] One foot is better than two crutches

63] Full of courtesy, full of craft

64] All things are difficult before they are easy

65] You may know by a handful the whole sack

66] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

67] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

68] Those near the temple deride the gods

69] He that has plenty of goods will have more

70] Laugh and grow fat

71] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

72] Man does what he can, and God what he will

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

74] The weeds overgrow the corn.

75] Mirth without measure is madness

76] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

77] A burnt child dreads the fire

78] There’s a time and place for everything

79] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

80] Never do evil that good may come of it

81] Better the foot slip than the tongue

82] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

83] Of one ill come many

84] You may have too much of a good thing

85] Forecast is better than work-hard

86] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

87] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

88] Kill two birds with one stone

89] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

90] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

91] Misery loves company.

92] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

93] Rats know the ways of rats

94] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

95] Friends are thieves of time

96] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

97] He stands not surely that never slips

98] One foot is better than two crutches

99] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

100] There is no garden without its weeds