Famous Proverbs

1] Laugh and grow fat

2] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

3] He that will thrive must rise at five

4] Cheats never prosper

5] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

6] You are never too old to learn

7] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

8] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

9] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

10] Christmas comes but once a year

11] What’s done cannot be undone

12] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

13] 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

14] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

15] Who suffers much is silent

16] Hard cases make bad law

17] A good dog deserves a good bone

18] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

19] Truth is stranger than fiction

20] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

21] Better be born lucky than wise.

22] A man may learn wit every day.

23] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

24] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

25] Almost’ never killed a fly.

26] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

27] Plain dealing is best

28] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

29] The pen is the tongue of the hand

30] Never judge from appearances

31] God is a sure paymaster

32] A little learning is dangerous thing

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

34] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

35] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

36] There is safety in numbers

37] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

38] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

39] Let bygones be bygones

40] The word is far him who has patience

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

42] Nature is conquered by obeying her

43] Trust is the mother of deceit

44] The more you get, the more you want

45] Better to be safe than sorry.

46] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

47] We live laws, not by examples

48] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

49] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

50] A little learning is dangerous thing

51] Misfortune does not always come to injure

52] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

53] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

54] Fine feathers make fine birds.

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

56] A soft answer turns away wrath

57] Money refused loses its brightness

58] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

59] Sickness shows us what we are

60] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

61] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

62] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

63] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

64] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

65] Accidents will happen

66] Nature is the true law

67] Not even Hercules could contend against two

68] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

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

70] It is best to be on the safe side

71] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

72] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

73] It is no use crying over spilt milk

74] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

75] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

76] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

77] Through obedience learn to command.

78] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

79] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

80] A man’s studies pass in to his character

81] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

82] He who leaps high must take a long run

83] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

84] Every law has a loophole

85] Charity begins at home.

86] Every man is his own worst enemy

87] There are more men threatened than stricken

88] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

89] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

90] Corn him well and he will work better

91] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

92] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

93] He that desires but little has no deed of much

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

95] He who touches pitch will be defiled

96] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

97] There is safety in numbers

98] Let the buyer beware

99] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

100] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest