Famous Proverbs

1] A light purse makes a heavy heart

2] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

3] Fools grow without watering.

4] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

5] Bear with evil and expect good

6] The sign brings customers

7] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

8] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

9] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

10] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

11] You never know your luck

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

13] Variety takes away satiety

14] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

15] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

16] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

17] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

18] Woes unite foes

19] The more cost, the more honour

20] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

21] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

22] All our pomp the earth covers

23] Never say die

24] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

25] Example is better than precept

26] You cannot serve God and Mammon

27] None so busy as those who do nothing.

28] He that promises too much means nothing

29] Desert and reward seldom keep company

30] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

31] A hungry man is angry man

32] He that knows little often repeats it

33] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

34] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

35] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

36] The good intention excuses the bad action

37] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

38] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

39] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

40] Honesty is ill to thrive by

41] Small is the seed of every greatness

42] The world is full of fools

43] We live by laws, not by examples

44] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

45] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

46] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

47] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

48] He who hesitates is lost

49] Might overcome right.

50] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

51] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

52] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

53] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

54] There are two sides to every question

55] Time flees without a delay

56] No misfortune will go on forever

57] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

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

59] Better beg than steal.

60] Variety is charming

61] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

62] Don’t tell tales out of school

63] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

64] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

65] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

66] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

67] He that seeks trouble never misses

68] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

69] He that has plenty of goods will have more

70] A piece of churchyard fits every body

71] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

72] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

73] Give and take is fair play

74] Weak things united become strong

75] No one betrays himself by silence

76] A little is better than none

77] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

78] Friendship should not be all on one

79] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

80] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

81] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

82] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

83] Evil to him who evil thinks.

84] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

85] Where there is no might, right loses itself

86] He that pities another remembers himself

87] Barking dogs seldom bite

88] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

89] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

90] All things require skills but an appetite

91] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

92] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

93] Do as the friar says, not as he does

94] None but the brave deserves the fair

95] Wife and Children are bills of charges

96] He who wills the end, Wills the means

97] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

98] Of three main roads, take the middle one

99] Much learning makes men mad

100] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.