Famous Proverbs

1] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

2] Better be safe than sorry

3] The highest tree has the greatest fall

4] Safety lies in the middle course

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

6] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

7] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

8] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

9] A fault confessed is half redressed

10] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

11] Home is where the heart is

12] Charity begins at home.

13] A little learning is dangerous thing

14] Even Homer sometimes nods

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

16] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

17] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

18] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

19] Learn to walk before you run

20] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

21] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

22] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

23] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

24] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

25] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

26] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

27] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

28] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

29] A burnt child dreads the fire

30] Common fame is a liar

31] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

32] He that has a wife, has strife

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

34] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

35] Old vessels must leak

36] First come, first served

37] Too much money makes one mad

38] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

39] They brag most who can do least

40] It takes two to make a quarrel

41] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

42] Better late than never, but better never late

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

44] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

45] Don’t put the cart before the horse

46] Like father, like son

47] Desires are nourished by delays

48] Business is business

49] Never grieve for what you cannot help

50] Better bend than break

51] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

52] If anything can go wrong, it will

53] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

54] Dying is as natural as living

55] Wishes can never fill a sack

56] A jack of all traders is master of none

57] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

58] No pain, no cure

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

60] First impressions are most lasting

61] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

62] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

63] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

64] Example is better than precept

65] Waste is not grandeur

66] As soon as there is life there is danger

67] A little body often harbours a great soul

68] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

69] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

70] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

71] He who has seen little marvels much

72] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

73] One is not smelt where all stink

74] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

75] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

76] Pat any man and dust will fly

77] Beauty fades like a flower.

78] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

79] New things are fair

80] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

81] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

82] He stands not surely that never slips

83] You win some, you lose some

84] No hair so small but has his shadow

85] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

86] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

87] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

88] Love me, love the crows on my roof

89] The best things come in small packages

90] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

91] A fool may give a wise man counsel

92] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

93] First things first

94] Youth and age will never agree

95] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

96] Never say die

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

98] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

99] Money refused loses its brightness

100] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark