Famous Proverbs

1] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

2] Great minds think alike

3] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

4] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

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

6] Don’t play with edged tools

7] Little wealth, little care

8] Fools grow without watering.

9] Wisdom is better than strength

10] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

11] Don’t kick against the pricks

12] More than enough is too much

13] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

14] Whatever man has done, man can do

15] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

16] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

17] First think, and then speak

18] Too many cooks spoil the broth

19] Innocence is no protection

20] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

21] Speech is silver, silence is golden

22] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

23] He who last, laughs longest.

24] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

25] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

26] The best things in life are free

27] Once bitten, twice shy.

28] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

29] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

30] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

31] Wink at small faults

32] Penny and penny laid up will be many

33] Learn not and know not

34] Debt is an evil conscience

35] No man is wise at all times

36] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

37] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

38] There is no time like the present

39] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

40] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

41] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

42] Let us do evil that good may come

43] Small is beautiful

44] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

45] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

46] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

47] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

48] They are rich who have true friends

49] The best of friends must part

50] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

51] The king can do no wrong

52] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

53] Time flees without a delay

54] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

55] In indecision itself, grief is present.

56] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

57] Often and little eating makes a man fat

58] Rome was not built in a day

59] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

60] He is wise who looks ahead

61] Full of courtesy, full of craft

62] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

63] Ill news comes apace.

64] The highest tree has the greatest fall

65] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

66] Every oak has been an acorn

67] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

68] A fault once denied is twice committed

69] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

70] Better learn late than never

71] All things are possible with god

72] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

73] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

74] Cheats never prosper

75] A man may bear till his back breaks

76] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

77] Of one ill come many

78] It is best to be on the safe side

79] III counsel mars all

80] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

81] All good things must come to an end

82] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

83] Good is good but better carries it

84] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

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

86] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

87] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

88] No hair so small but has his shadow

89] The coward threatens only when he is safe

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

91] Come with the wind, got with the water

92] A jack of all traders is master of none

93] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

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

95] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

96] Either mend or end

97] It is no use crying over spilt milk

98] Cleanliness is next to godliness

99] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

100] The early man ever borrows from the late man