Famous Proverbs

1] Suffering does not manifest itself

2] Crime does not pay

3] He who owes is in all the wrong

4] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

5] In my own house, I am king

6] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

7] Truth is stranger than fiction

8] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

9] The righteous man sins before an open chest

10] Jack is as good as his master

11] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

12] No one betrays himself by silence

13] A wicked man is his own hell

14] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

15] Dog does not eat dog

16] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

17] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

18] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

19] What the king wills, that the law wills

20] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

21] All our pomp the earth covers

22] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

23] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

24] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

25] Do as say, not as I do

26] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

27] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

28] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

29] Think on the end before you begin

30] No feast lasts forever.

31] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

32] A bully never grows up.

33] What’s done cannot be undone

34] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

35] Love cannot be compelled

36] See which way the cat jumps

37] The longest night will have an end

38] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

39] What has been, may be

40] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

41] Long life has long misery

42] A scalded cat fears hot water.

43] Paddle your own canoe

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

45] Even water has its ebb and flow

46] Lucky men need no counsel

47] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

48] A stitch in time saves nine

49] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

50] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

51] Even reckoning makes long friends

52] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

53] The owl thinks her own young fairest

54] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

55] The value of money is having it.

56] Nature is content with little.

57] Wise men silent, fools talk

58] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

59] Money refused loses its brightness

60] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

61] One fool praises another

62] Life is not all beer and skittles

63] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

64] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

65] Extremes are dangerous

66] All things that great men do are well done

67] Fair exchange is no robbery

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

69] Every dog is a lion at home

70] Might overcome right.

71] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

72] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

73] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

74] In haste is error

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

76] In indecision itself, grief is present.

77] Judge not, that ye be not judged

78] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

79] Desire beautifies what is ugly

80] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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

82] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

83] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

84] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

85] Nearest the heart comes out first

86] Needs must when the evil drives

87] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

88] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

89] Everything must have a beginning

90] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

91] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

92] The best things carried to excess are wrong

93] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

94] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

95] Step by step the ladder is ascended

96] What costs little is little esteemed

97] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

98] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

99] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

100] Every man has his faults