Famous Proverbs

1] There are more men threatened than stricken

2] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

3] What the king wills, that the law wills

4] When bees area old, they yield n honey

5] A knave and a fool never take thought

6] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

7] Better beg than steal.

8] Covetousness brings nothing home

9] Moderation in all things

10] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

11] He that blows best, bears away the horn

12] Lookers-on see most of the game

13] A change is as good as rest

14] Rust wastes more than use

15] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

16] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

17] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

18] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

19] When you do not know what to do – wait.

20] All truths are not to be told

21] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

22] Who greases his way travels easily

23] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

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

25] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

26] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

27] The exception proves the rule

28] The money you refuse will never do you good

29] Seek and you shall find

30] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

31] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

32] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

33] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

34] They that dance must pay the fiddler

35] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

36] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

37] Never say die

38] It’s dogged that does it

39] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

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

41] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

42] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

43] Excessive happiness produces pain

44] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

45] In indecision itself, grief is present.

46] Prospect is often better than possession

47] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

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

49] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

50] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

51] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

52] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

53] A bully never grows up.

54] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

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

56] Some are wise and some are otherwise

57] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

58] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

59] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

60] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

61] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

62] A fool believes everything

63] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

64] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

65] Despair gives courage to a coward

66] A bully is always a coward

67] The best of men are but men at best.

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

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

70] Fool’s haste is no speed

71] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

72] There is safety in numbers

73] Bad news travels fast

74] Lend never that thing you needed most

75] No wrong without a remedy

76] A good paymaster needs no surety

77] A jest breaks no bones

78] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

79] The absent saint gets no candle

80] What is worth doing is worth doing well

81] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

82] Repentance is a bitter physic

83] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

84] No man limps because another is hurt

85] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

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

87] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

88] Better be alone than in bad company

89] Gluttony kills more than the sword

90] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

91] The goat must browse where she is tied

92] We have all been once in our life

93] Ill news comes unsent for.

94] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

95] It is as natural to die as to be born

96] An honest good look covers many faults.

97] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

98] A door must be either shut or open

99] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

100] Liars should have good memories