Famous Proverbs

1] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

2] Remember, you are but a man

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

4] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

5] Grief pent up will break the heart

6] Hope often deludes the foolish man

7] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

8] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

9] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

10] Almost’ never killed a fly.

11] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

12] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

13] Wedlock is padlock

14] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

15] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

16] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

17] Danger makes men devout

18] Fish and guests smell in three days

19] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

20] Well begun is half done.

21] Repentance comes too late

22] A hedge between keeps friendship green

23] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

24] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

25] There’s no great loss without some gain

26] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

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

28] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

29] Slow and steady wins the race

30] Common fame is seldom to blame

31] Nothing seek, nothing find

32] Let bygones be bygones

33] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

34] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

35] Never too late to learn

36] All things require skills but an appetite

37] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

38] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

39] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

40] In everything consider the end

41] There is honour among thieves

42] By falling we learn to go safely

43] No man can serve two masters

44] Might knows no right

45] Better learn late than never

46] The age of miracles is past

47] Wine unveils the words of the heart

48] Enough is enough

49] From small beginnings come great things

50] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

51] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

52] A change is as good as rest

53] Where there is peace, there is blessing

54] Dead dogs bark not

55] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

56] Give the devil his due

57] Mere wishes are silly fishes

58] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

59] Great talkers are never great doers

60] Do as I say, not as I do

61] Money talks

62] The best go first

63] There is many a fair thing full false

64] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

65] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

66] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

67] Experience is the best teacher

68] There is no smoke without fire

69] Take things as you find them

70] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

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

72] A house divided against itself cannot stand

73] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

74] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

75] God makes the back for the burden

76] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

77] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

78] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

79] Desire beautifies what is ugly

80] There are spots even in the sun

81] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

82] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

83] The first step is the only difficulty

84] Money has no smell

85] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

86] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

87] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

88] All is vanity.

89] When angry, count a hundred

90] Everything is good in its season

91] There’s no place like home

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

93] Every man must carry his own cross

94] Every man is his own worst enemy

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

96] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

97] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

98] When meat is in anger is out

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

100] Fool’s haste is no speed