Famous Proverbs

1] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

2] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

3] Charity begins at home.

4] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

5] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

6] Four eyes see better than two.

7] Trust not the many-minded populace

8] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

9] Two wrongs do not make a right

10] Dead dogs bark not

11] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

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

13] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

14] The value of money is having it.

15] Intimacy lessens fame

16] Wife and Children are bills of charges

17] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

18] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

19] Cheats never prosper

20] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

21] Many drops make a shower

22] No choice amongst stinking fish

23] An army marches on its stomach

24] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

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

26] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

27] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

28] Do right and fear no man

29] Great talkers are never great doers

30] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

31] Still waters run deep

32] Great gain makes easy work

33] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

34] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

35] Ill news comes unsent for.

36] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

37] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

38] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

39] Every medal has two sides

40] One kindness is the price of another

41] The tide must be taken when it comes

42] He that has no money needs no purse

43] Waste makes wants

44] Through hardship to the stars

45] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

46] Young colts will canter.

47] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

48] Virtue joints man to god

49] There are spots even in the sun

50] Never refuse a good offer

51] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

52] Poor folk fare the best

53] No man fears what he has seen grow

54] Patience is a plaster for all sores

55] Beauty fades like a flower.

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

57] Wrong has no warrant

58] Rich folk have many friends

59] One good turn deserves another

60] The age of miracles is past

61] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

62] When the word is out it belongs to another

63] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

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

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

66] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

67] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

68] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

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

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

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

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

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

74] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

75] Penny wise, pound foolish

76] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

77] Kill two birds with one stone

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

79] Good words are worth much and cost little

80] He that has a wife, has strife

81] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

82] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

83] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

84] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

85] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

86] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

87] The eye is bigger than the belly

88] Jesters do oft prove prophets

89] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

90] Better learn late than never

91] No remedy but patience

92] Birds of a feather flock together

93] The dog that fetches, will carry.

94] A rich man’s joke is always funny

95] Where there’s a will there’s a way

96] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

97] Divine grace was never slow

98] It is useless to flog a dead horse

99] Hunger is the best sauce

100] A traveller may lie with authority