Famous Proverbs

1] Standing pools gather fifth

2] Money refused loses its brightness

3] Pursuits become habits

4] History repeats itself

5] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

6] One sword keeps another in the sheath

7] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

8] Tempt not a desperate man

9] First think, and then speak

10] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

11] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

12] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

13] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

14] Money isn’t everything

15] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

16] That which proves too much proves nothing

17] A good name is better than riches

18] Revenge never repairs an injury

19] Wedlock is padlock

20] Kill two birds with one stone

21] If the cap fits, wear it

22] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

23] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

24] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

25] Wise men propose, and fools determine

26] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

27] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

28] Better belly burst than good meat lost

29] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

30] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

31] Once bitten, twice shy.

32] Friendship should not be all on one side

33] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

34] The game is not worth the candle

35] The sun shines upon all alike.

36] A hungry man is angry man

37] United we stand, divided we fall

38] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

39] There’s no great loss without some gain

40] We don’t get something for nothing

41] Birds once snared fear all bushes

42] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

43] When the cat is away, the mice will play

44] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

45] The devil dances in an empty pocket

46] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

47] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

48] Everything must have a beginning

49] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

50] Step by step the ladder is ascended

51] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

52] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

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

54] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

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

56] Kill two birds with one stone

57] Easy come, easy go

58] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

59] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

60] One today is worth two tomorrows

61] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

62] Variety is charming

63] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

64] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

65] No man is content with his lot

66] What will not money do?

67] Where there is peace, God is

68] He who begins many things, finishes but few

69] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

70] A little too late, is much too late

71] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

72] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

73] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

74] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

75] Lovers are madmen

76] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

77] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

78] The best things are hard to come by.

79] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

80] Each day brings its own bread

81] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

82] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

83] Now is now, and then was then

84] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

85] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

86] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

87] Live and let live

88] Asking costs little

89] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

90] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

91] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

92] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

93] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

94] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

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

96] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

97] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

98] He that eats least eats most

99] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

100] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)