Famous Proverbs

1] Better late than never

2] Hope keeps man alive

3] Fools rejoice at promises

4] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

5] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

6] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

7] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

8] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

9] Poor men’s words have little weight

10] Out of sight, out of mind

11] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

12] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

13] Discontent is the first step in progress

14] The longest night will have an end

15] Haste is of (or from) the devil

16] Do right and fear no man

17] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

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

19] Old foxes want no tutors

20] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

21] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

22] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

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

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

25] For a web begun, God sends the thread

26] He stands not surely that never slips

27] Choose thy company before thy drink

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

29] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

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

31] No remedy but patience

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

33] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

34] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

35] Long life has long misery

36] Don’t play with edged tools

37] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

38] The hand that gives, gathers

39] Suffering does not manifest itself

40] Forecast is better than work-hard

41] Hunger is the teacher of many

42] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

43] Do as I say, not as I do

44] There is no rose without a thorn

45] Travel broadens the mind

46] Half a loaf is better than do bread

47] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

48] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

49] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

50] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

51] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

52] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

53] It is well to live that one may learn

54] No man is content with his lot

55] Old cattle breed not

56] He that repairs not a part, builds all

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

58] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

59] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

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

61] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

62] It is too late to look up after you have collided

63] Wise men silent, fools talk

64] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

65] True gold is not transformed by fire

66] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

67] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

68] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

69] Now is now, and then was then

70] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

71] Asking costs little

72] Silence gives (or means) consent

73] Patience is the remedy of the world

74] Lookers-on see more than players

75] It is easy to be wise after the event

76] Step by step the ladder is ascended

77] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

78] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

79] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

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

81] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

82] Cheap is dear in the long run.

83] Like mother, like daughter

84] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

85] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

86] So many men, so many opinions

87] Beauty draws more than oxen

88] Long looked for, comes at last

89] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

90] It is best to be on the safe side

91] First things first

92] Health is great riches

93] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

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

95] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

96] It is all in the day’s work

97] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

98] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

99] No man is wise at all times

100] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven