Famous Proverbs

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

2] All doors open to courtesy

3] Life begins only in success

4] Bare walls make giddy housewives

5] Trust not the many-minded populace

6] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

7] Keep some till further more come

8] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

9] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

10] The mob tramples on the coward

11] Long life has long misery

12] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

13] Never too late to repent

14] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

15] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

16] Good ware makes quick market

17] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

18] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

19] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

20] Two blacks do not make a white

21] Pursuits become habits

22] All’s well that ends well

23] A scalded cat fears hot water.

24] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

25] Time has wings

26] There is many a true word spoken in jest

27] The eye is bigger than the belly

28] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

29] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

30] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

31] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

32] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

33] As you bake, so shall you eat.

34] There are more men threatened than stricken

35] If you play with fire you get burnt

36] He who touches pitch will be defiled

37] Master easy, servant slack

38] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

39] Better the foot slip than the tongue

40] The more you get, the more you want

41] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

42] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

43] No like is the same.

44] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

45] Every advantage has its disadvantage

46] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

47] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

48] Bare walls make giddy housewives

49] Where there is peace, there is blessing

50] Good clothes open all doors

51] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

52] Like question, like answer.

53] In wine there is truth

54] Accidents will happen

55] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

56] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

57] That which proves too much proves nothing

58] Long looked for, comes at last

59] Care is no cure

60] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

61] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

62] There’s a black sheep in every flock

63] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

64] Ill gotten, ill spent

65] He that eats least eats most

66] A good garden may have some ill weeds

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

68] Vice makes virtue shine

69] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

70] The longest journey starts with a single step

71] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

72] Once a knave, always a knave

73] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

74] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

75] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

76] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

77] There is no rose without a thorn

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

79] If you want peace, prepare for war

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

81] Morning dreams come true

82] Every medal has two sides

83] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

84] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

85] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

86] What is new cannot be true

87] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

88] Parents are patterns

89] Bear and forbear

90] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

91] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

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

93] If you want peace, prepare for war

94] The devil dances in an empty pocket

95] He that sows virtue reaps fame

96] Even Homer sometimes nods

97] There is no redemption from hell

98] Children and fools have merry lives

99] He who leaps high must take a long run

100] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided