Famous Proverbs

1] No feast lasts forever.

2] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

3] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

4] What costs little is little esteemed

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

6] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

7] It is useless to flog a dead horse

8] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

9] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

10] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

11] Thrift is a great revenue

12] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

13] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

14] Never grieve for what you cannot help

15] The worse luck now, the better another time

16] He knows most who speaks least

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

18] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

19] Hard cases make bad law

20] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

21] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

22] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

23] Empty vessels make the most sound

24] Needs must when the devil drives

25] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

26] All things require skills but an appetite

27] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

28] Fools grow without watering.

29] Love knows no limit

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

31] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

32] Make haste slowly

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

34] Tigers and deer do not over.

35] Men are not angles

36] You cannot have it both ways

37] One is what one eats

38] A man in debt is caught in a net

39] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

40] Never refuse a good offer

41] Live and Learn

42] Friends agree best at a distance

43] You never know your luck

44] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

45] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

46] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

47] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

48] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

49] It is misery enough to have once been happy

50] Might overcome right.

51] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

52] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

53] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

54] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

55] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

56] Good words are worth much and cost little

57] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

58] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

59] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

60] Who greases his way travels easily

61] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

62] He laughs best who laughs last

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

64] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

65] No answer is also an answer

66] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

67] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

68] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

69] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

70] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

71] Make hay while the sun shines

72] One fool praises another

73] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

74] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

75] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

76] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

77] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

78] There is honour among thieves

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

80] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

81] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

82] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

83] What is deferred is not abandoned

84] Whatever man has done, man can do

85] Never grieve for what you cannot help

86] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

87] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

88] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

89] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

90] Dumb dogs are dangerous

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

92] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

93] No man is infallible

94] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

95] The belly carries the legs

96] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

97] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

98] He that has an ill name is half hanged

99] Eat to live and not live to eat.

100] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food