Famous Proverbs

1] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

2] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

3] Who greases his way travels easily

4] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

5] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

6] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

7] A scalded cat fears hot water.

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

9] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

10] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

11] Slow but sure wins the race

12] Poverty parts friendship

13] Slow help is no help

14] Bold men have generous hearts

15] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

16] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

17] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

18] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

19] Every man is his own worst enemy

20] Small is the seed of every greatness

21] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

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

23] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

24] Cast not the first stone.

25] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

26] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

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

28] A gift much expected is paid, not given

29] Might overcome right.

30] The greatest talkers are the least doers

31] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

32] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

33] Least said, soonest mended

34] Nothing crave, nothing have

35] Home is where the heart is

36] Learning is the eye of the mind

37] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

38] Pursuits become habits

39] He that brings good news, knocks hard

40] The darkest place is under the candlestick

41] The righteous man sins before an open chest

42] Come with the wind, got with the water

43] A rolling stone gathers no moss

44] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

45] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

46] Every advantage has its disadvantage

47] Little things are great to little men

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

49] Pitchers have ears

50] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

51] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

52] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

53] Dreams go by contraries

54] There’s a black sheep in every flock

55] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

56] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

57] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

58] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

59] One man’s loss is another’s gain

60] Kill two birds with one stone

61] Diligence is the mother of good luck

62] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

63] Without diligence, no prize

64] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

65] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

66] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

67] Give the devil his due

68] Pleasing ware is half sold

69] It is as natural to die as to be born

70] A fault confessed is half redressed

71] Dead dogs bark not

72] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

73] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

74] What’s in a name?

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

76] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

77] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

78] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

79] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

80] A goose drinks as much as gander

81] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

82] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

83] There’s always room at the top

84] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

85] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

86] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

87] To err is human

88] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

89] Garbage in, garbage out

90] Work expands so as to fill the time available

91] We don’t get something for nothing

92] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

93] Truth is stranger than fiction

94] He may find fault that cannot mend

95] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

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

97] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

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

99] Money is the only monarch

100] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly