Famous Proverbs

1] Never judge from appearances

2] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

3] What can’t be cured must be endured

4] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

5] Lookers-on see more than players

6] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

7] An egg thief will become a camel thief

8] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

9] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

10] Threatened folk live long

11] Children speak only words they have heard.

12] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

13] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

14] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

15] Other times, other manners

16] A friend in need is a friend indeed

17] Envy never enriched any man.

18] Every dog has his (its) day

19] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

20] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

21] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

22] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

23] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

24] When angry, count a hundred

25] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

26] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

27] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

28] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

29] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

30] If today will not, tomorrow may

31] Train the child in the way he should go.

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

33] He is lifeless that is faultless

34] He who envies admits his inferiority

35] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

36] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

37] A fool always rushes to the fore.

38] Kill two birds with one stone

39] Men do more things through habit than reason

40] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

41] Better late than never, but better never late

42] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

43] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

44] In the end, things will mend

45] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

46] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

47] Men are not angles

48] There are more ways to the wood than one.

49] Never too late to learn

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

51] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

52] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

53] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

54] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

55] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

56] Nature abhors a vacuum

57] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

58] The best go first

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

60] What everybody says must be true

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

62] It takes a wise man to be a fool

63] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

64] Repentance is a bitter physic

65] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

66] You cannot make bricks without straw

67] Out of debt, out of danger

68] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

69] Where there is no might, right loses itself

70] Muck and money go together

71] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

72] Small is beautiful

73] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

74] We are all Adam’s children

75] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

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

77] Comparisons are odious

78] The bull must be taken by the horns

79] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

80] Never refuse a good offer

81] Wife and Children are bills of charges

82] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

83] Bad excuses are worse than none.

84] Old habits die hard

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

86] Many eyes upon the king

87] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

88] Desire beautifies what is ugly

89] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

90] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

91] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

92] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

93] Much science, much sorrow

94] All are not saints that go to church

95] Every may be has a may not be

96] Without luck, it is better not to be born

97] Old foxes want no tutors

98] All is vanity.

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

100] The best fish swim near the bottom