Famous Proverbs

1] The greatest talkers are the least doers

2] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

3] Like mistress, like maid

4] Homer sometimes nods

5] Asking costs little

6] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

7] Rust wastes more than use

8] Soon hot, soon cold

9] Give a loan and buy quarrel

10] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

11] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

12] The sign brings customers

13] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

14] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

15] Every Jack must have his Jill

16] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

17] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

18] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

19] Step by step the ladder is ascended

20] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

21] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

22] Life begins only in success

23] Business is business

24] Love and business teach eloquence

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

26] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

27] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

28] A bully is always a coward

29] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

30] A rich man can do nothing wrong

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

32] A hedge between keeps friendship green

33] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

34] Wrong has no warrant

35] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

36] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

37] Silence and thinking can no man offend

38] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

39] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

40] Dead men don’t bite

41] Wink at small faults

42] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

43] Empty vessels make the most sound

44] See how the wind blows

45] All things that great men do are well done

46] Light grows the burden which is well borne

47] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

48] Garbage in, garbage out

49] Truth has no need of rhetoric

50] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

51] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

52] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

53] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

54] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

55] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

56] Books and friends should be few but good

57] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

58] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

59] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

60] The good intention excuses the bad action

61] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

62] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

63] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

64] Live and let live

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

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

67] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

68] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

69] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

70] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

71] Where there is peace, God is

72] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

73] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

74] First impressions are the most lasting

75] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

76] Few words are best

77] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

78] Error cannot be defended but by error

79] Money is power

80] Every man to his trade.

81] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

82] A stitch in time saves nine

83] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

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

85] Live and Learn

86] He who touches pitch will be defiled

87] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

88] Dumb dogs are dangerous

89] III counsel mars all

90] It is more blessed to give than to receive

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

92] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

93] A joke’s a very serious thing

94] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

95] Busiest men find the most time

96] None so busy as those who do nothing.

97] Strike while the iron is hot

98] A man’s mother is his other God

99] Full of courtesy, full of craft

100] He who can does. He who cannot teaches