Famous Proverbs

1] It is well to live that one may learn

2] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

3] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

4] Money isn’t everything

5] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

6] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

7] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

8] First impressions are most lasting

9] It is not work that kills but worry

10] They also serve who only stand and wait

11] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

12] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

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

14] The end crowns the work.

15] A good marksman may miss

16] Numbers overcome the brave

17] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

18] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

19] Too many cooks spoil the broth

20] Every advantage has its disadvantage

21] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

22] Bad news travels fast

23] Silence is golden

24] Money has no smell

25] Soon hot, soon cold

26] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

27] Words cut more than swords

28] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

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

30] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

31] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

32] Do as say, not as I do

33] That which is easily done is soon believed

34] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

35] New lords, new laws

36] What the king wills, that the law wills

37] Needs must when the evil drives

38] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

39] Help a lame dog over a stile

40] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

41] Where there is whispering there is lying

42] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

43] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

44] Death does not recognize strength

45] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

46] Prove your friend ere you have need

47] There are spots even in the sun

48] Train the child in the way he should go.

49] Slow help is no help

50] Better late than never

51] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

52] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

53] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

54] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

55] More haste, less speed

56] Fine words dress ill deeds

57] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

58] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

59] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

60] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

61] You never know your luck

62] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

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

64] Soon gotten, soon spent

65] He gives twice who gives quickly

66] A heavy purse makes a light heart

67] Creditors have better memories than debtors

68] Fortune is blind

69] A true friend is forever a friend

70] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

71] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

72] It will be the same a hundred years hence

73] Each day brings its own bread

74] All truths are not to be told

75] It’s dogged that does it

76] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

77] Necessity knows no law

78] All things require skills but an appetite

79] Loyalty is worth more than money

80] The pen is the tongue of the hand

81] The best things carried to excess are wrong

82] Hunger is sharper than the sword

83] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

84] Wise men do not argue with idiots

85] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

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

87] Bad news travels fast

88] A man may bear till his back breaks

89] If anything can go wrong, it will

90] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

91] What is a workman without his tools?

92] Water is the king of food

93] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

94] Virtue joints man to god

95] Thrift is a great revenue

96] Friendship should not be all on one side

97] Ambition makes people diligent

98] Better ask the way than go astray

99] It takes a wise man to be a fool

100] The morning hour has gold in its mouth