Famous Proverbs

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

2] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

3] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

4] Time flees without a delay

5] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

6] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

7] Failure teaches success

8] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

9] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

10] He that has no money needs no purse

11] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

12] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

13] Money makes the man

14] Care brings grey hair.

15] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

16] You can’t tell a book by its cover

17] He that sows virtue reaps fame

18] The pen is the tongue of the hand

19] All covet all lose.

20] Bind the sack before it be full

21] Threatened folk live long

22] Trusting often makes fidelity

23] Frugality is the mother of virtue

24] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

25] An old ox makes a straight furrow

26] Men are not angles

27] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

28] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

29] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

30] Don’t cry for the moon

31] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

32] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

33] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

34] There is safety in numbers

35] Gold will not buy everything

36] Health is better than wealth

37] Nothing comes from nothing

38] You cannot make bricks without straw

39] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

40] Sweet are the uses of adversity

41] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

42] Might overcome right.

43] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

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

45] Care is no cure

46] A monk can’t shave his own head

47] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

48] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

49] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

50] Every man praises his own wares

51] Either mend or end

52] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

53] One swallow does not make a summer

54] Youth and age will never agree

55] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

56] Long absent, soon forgotten

57] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

58] A rolling stone gathers no moss

59] Poverty is the mother of crime

60] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

61] It is no use crying over spilt milk

62] The dog is a lion in his own house

63] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

64] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

65] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

66] In wine there is truth

67] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

68] Call no man happy till he is dead

69] Good hand, good hire

70] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

71] See which way the cat jumps

72] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

73] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

74] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

75] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

76] Love will find a way

77] The road to hell is paved with good action

78] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

79] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

80] Ill comes often on the back worse

81] Like master, like man

82] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

83] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

84] Beggars must not be choosers

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

86] Waste makes wants

87] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

88] Poverty parts friendship

89] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

90] None so blind as those who will not see

91] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

92] None can guess the jewel by the casket

93] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

94] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

95] No hair so small but has his shadow

96] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

97] A bribe will enter without knocking

98] Years know more than books

99] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

100] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest