Famous Proverbs

1] Grasp all, lose all

2] Eat to live and not live to eat.

3] Numbers overcome the brave

4] Desire beautifies what is ugly

5] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

6] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

7] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

8] The wisest of the wise may err.

9] Too much money makes one mad

10] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

11] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

12] Good wine needs no bush

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

14] Divide and rule

15] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

16] Ready money is ready medicine

17] The golden age was never the present age

18] Envy never enriched any man.

19] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

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

21] Let the buyer beware

22] Content is better than riches

23] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

24] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

25] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

26] A word spoken is past recalling

27] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

28] A goose drinks as much as gander

29] There is none misfortune cannot reach

30] One swallow does not make a summer

31] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

32] The best fish swim near the bottom

33] Better to ask the way than go astray.

34] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

35] Work expands so as to fill the time available

36] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

37] There’s always room at the top

38] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

39] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

40] Dogs bark as they are bred.

41] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

42] The age of miracles is past

43] Far from eye, far from heart

44] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

45] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

46] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

47] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

48] Six feet of earth make all men equal

49] If you want peace, prepare for war

50] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

51] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

52] Take away fuel, take away flame

53] You cannot make bricks without straw

54] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

55] It is never too late to mend

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

57] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

58] Dead men don’t bite

59] He that burns most, shines most

60] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

61] He has not lost all who has one cast left

62] Delays are not denials

63] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

64] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

65] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

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

67] Kindness lies in one side of the house

68] Two wrongs do not make a right

69] He may find fault that cannot mend

70] Desert and reward seldom keep company

71] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

72] Love is blind

73] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

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

75] The borrower is servant to the lender

76] Lookers-on see most of the game

77] All is vanity.

78] It’s dogged that does it

79] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

80] Things past cannot be recalled

81] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

82] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

83] Flesh is frail

84] Much learning makes men mad

85] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

86] Whatever man has done, man can do

87] Misery loves company.

88] Silence and thinking can no man offend

89] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

90] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

91] Idleness is the root of all evil

92] More haste, less speed

93] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

94] Eat to live and not live to eat.

95] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

96] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

97] Even a worm will turn

98] It is more blessed to give than to receive

99] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

100] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses