Famous Proverbs

1] Dying is as natural as living

2] Enough is enough

3] He that blows best, bears away the horn

4] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

5] Every man to his trade.

6] An old man is a bed full of bones

7] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

8] The golden age was never the present age

9] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

10] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

11] Every man has his faults

12] So many countries, so many customs

13] They that dance must pay the fiddler

14] Every Jack must have his Jill

15] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

16] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

17] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

18] Liars should have good memories

19] Custom reconciles us to everything

20] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

21] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

22] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

23] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

24] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

25] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

26] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

27] A man can die but once

28] Take things as they come

29] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

30] It is more pain to do nothing than something

31] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

32] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

33] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

34] The cobbler should stick to his last

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

36] In haste is error

37] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

38] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

39] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

40] He that talks much, errs much

41] An egg thief will become a camel thief

42] He who excuses himself accuses himself

43] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

44] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

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

46] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

47] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

48] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

49] The word is far him who has patience

50] Adventures are to be adventurous

51] The best things in life are free

52] Beggars must not be choosers

53] Many drops make a shower

54] Death is the grand leveler

55] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

56] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

57] It is more pain to do nothing than something

58] The slowest barker is the surest biter

59] Bread is the staff of life.

60] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

61] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

62] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

63] Light burden I heavy if far borne

64] There is no place like home

65] Everything new is fine

66] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

67] Shrouds have no pockets

68] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

69] Man does what he can, and God what he will

70] Every man has his price

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

72] Where there is peace, God is

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

74] A rich man can do nothing wrong

75] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

76] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

77] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

78] He that travels far knows much

79] The borrower is servant to the lender

80] No one betrays himself by silence

81] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

82] Youth and age will never agree

83] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

84] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

85] The best wine comes from an old vessel

86] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

87] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

88] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

89] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

90] Revenge is sweet

91] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

92] First impressions are the most lasting

93] The best of friends must part

94] There is no garden without its weeds

95] Long absent, soon forgotten

96] Slow but sure wins the race

97] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

98] Rich folk have many friends

99] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

100] Many eyes upon the king