Famous Proverbs

1] Trust is the mother of deceit

2] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

3] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

4] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

5] Adventures are to be adventurous

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

7] Money isn’t everything

8] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

9] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

10] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

11] Fair play’s a jewel

12] The love of money is the root of all evil

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

14] The leopard cannot change its spots

15] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

16] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

17] Erring is not heating

18] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

19] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

20] There is none misfortune cannot reach

21] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

22] Stolen goods never thrive

23] He that will thrive must rise at five

24] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

25] Fortune favours fools

26] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

27] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

28] Easy come, easy go

29] The beaten road is the safest

30] None so blind as those who will not see

31] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

32] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

33] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

34] When you do not know what to do – wait.

35] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

36] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

37] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

38] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

39] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

40] A good conscience is a sure card

41] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

42] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

43] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

44] Curiosity killed the cat.

45] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

46] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

47] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

48] The best things are hard to come by.

49] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

50] There is a black sheep in every flock

51] Misfortune does not always come to injure

52] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

53] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

54] He who wills the end, Wills the means

55] One man sows and another reaps

56] God made the country ,and man made the town

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

58] Many words, many buffets

59] Know thyself

60] The early man ever borrows from the late man

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

62] Adam’s ale is the best brew

63] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

64] The longest way round is the shortest way home

65] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

66] A man in debt is caught in a net

67] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

68] Nearest the heart comes out first

69] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

70] Never judge from appearances

71] Where there’s a will there’s a way

72] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

73] You never know what you can do till you try

74] He who demands does not command

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

76] III counsel mars all

77] To teach is to learn twice over

78] Plain dealing is best

79] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

80] There is no fool like an old fool

81] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

82] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

83] There is no garden without its weeds

84] Little things are pretty

85] Children should be seen and not heard

86] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

87] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

88] Best is cheapest

89] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

90] A good drink makes the old young

91] Wrong has no warrant

92] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

93] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

94] Better an apple given than eaten

95] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

96] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

97] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

98] Human blood is all of a colour

99] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

100] Hasty work, double work,