Famous Proverbs

1] Home is where the heart is

2] He that burns most, shines most

3] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

4] Ambition makes people diligent

5] Wink at small faults

6] Diligence is the mother of good luck

7] Blood will have blood

8] Love can find a way

9] The absent saint gets no candle

10] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

11] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

12] He that has a wife, has strife

13] He gives twice who gives quickly

14] Patience is a plaster for all sores

15] Truth is god’s daughter

16] Death keeps no calendar

17] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

18] No man is born wise or learned

19] A door must be either shut or open

20] Laugh and grow fat

21] Misfortunes never come singly

22] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

23] Children speak only words they have heard.

24] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

25] That which is easily done is soon believed

26] See how the wind blows

27] A good example is the best sermon

28] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

29] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

30] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

31] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

32] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

33] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

34] Have two strings to your bow

35] You can’t take it with you when you die

36] Grin and bear it

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

38] A closed mouth catches no files

39] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

40] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

41] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

42] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

43] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

44] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

45] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

46] He that has good money, gives few alms

47] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

48] A rich man can do nothing wrong

49] One is never too old to learn

50] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

51] Water is the king of food

52] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

53] Every groom is a king at home

54] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

55] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

56] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

57] Work expands so as to fill the time available

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

59] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

60] He that lends, gives

61] He that lives ill, fear follows him

62] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

63] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

64] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

65] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

66] Better eye sore than al blind

67] Every may be has a may not be

68] We have all been once in our life

69] Mirth without measure is madness

70] Weapons breed peace

71] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

72] The voice is the best music

73] The deed comes back upon the doer.

74] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

75] The word is far him who has patience

76] Pitchers have ears

77] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

78] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

79] Blood will have blood

80] Misfortunes never come singly

81] Children learn to creep ere they can go

82] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

83] Thrift is a great revenue

84] There is no rose without a thorn

85] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

86] Those near the temple deride the gods

87] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

88] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

89] Affection blinds reason

90] The child is father of the man

91] Light burden I heavy if far borne

92] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

93] A parrot will only say what it is taught

94] Choose thy company before thy drink

95] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

96] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

97] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

98] Few words are best

99] The highest branch is not the safest roost

100] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces