Famous Proverbs

1] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

2] The coward threatens only when he is safe

3] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

4] A true man and a thief think not the same

5] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

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

7] There is no time like the present

8] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

9] He that has plenty of goods will have more

10] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

11] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

12] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

13] He that lives ill, fear follows him

14] Change brings life

15] Crowns have cares

16] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

17] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

18] A golden key opens every door

19] Small is beautiful

20] Do unto others as they should do unto you

21] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

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

23] God provides for him that trusts

24] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

25] Better unborn than untaught

26] Birds of a feather flock together

27] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

28] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

29] Seeing is believing

30] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

31] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

32] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

33] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

34] Plain dealing is a jewel

35] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

36] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

37] Don’t cry for the moon

38] Saying is one thing, and doing another

39] Ale will make a cat speak

40] Old vessels must leak

41] What costs little is little esteemed

42] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

43] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

44] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

45] He that knows little often repeats it

46] Judge not, that ye be not judged

47] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

48] Never refuse a good offer

49] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

50] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

51] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

52] They say so’ is half a lie

53] The mean is the best

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

55] Precept begins, examples accomplish

56] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

57] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

58] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

59] First thrive then wive

60] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

61] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

62] Fish begins to stink at the head

63] A prophet is without honour in his own country

64] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

65] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

66] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

67] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

68] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

69] A miss is as good as a mile

70] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

71] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

72] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

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

74] Wise men silent, fools talk

75] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

76] Fortune is blind

77] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

78] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

79] Call a spade a spade

80] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

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

82] No flying without wings.

83] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

84] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

85] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

86] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

87] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

88] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

89] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

90] A man can do no more than he can

91] Talk much end err much

92] Some are wise and some are otherwise

93] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

94] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

95] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

96] One hand washes the other

97] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

98] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

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

100] Better children weep than old men