Famous Proverbs

1] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

2] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

3] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

4] The last drop makes the cup run over

5] Everyone to his taste

6] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

7] He is lifeless that is faultless

8] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

9] Great gain makes easy work

10] The longest way round is the shortest way home

11] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

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

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

14] Tell a lie and stick to it.

15] Words cut more than swords

16] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

17] Appetite comes with eating

18] Boys will be boys

19] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

20] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

21] A little body often harbours a great soul

22] Where there is peace, God is

23] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

24] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

25] A man without a wife is but half a man

26] A good payer is master of another’s purse

27] A word before is worth two behind

28] Make the best of a bad bargain

29] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

30] Divide and rule

31] Words are but wind

32] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

33] Suffering does not manifest itself

34] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

35] Call no man happy till he is dead

36] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

37] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

38] He would command must serve

39] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

40] You may have too much of a good thing

41] Tigers and deer do not over.

42] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

43] The worse luck now, the better another time

44] Time and tide wait for no man

45] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

46] The hand that gives, gathers

47] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

48] Fair exchange is no robbery

49] Work won’t kill but worry will.

50] A watched pot never boils

51] Great oaks from little acorns grow

52] Empty vessels make the most sound

53] The hole calls the thief

54] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

55] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

56] Art improves Nature

57] He travels the fastest who travels alone

58] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

59] To teach is to learn twice over

60] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

61] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

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

63] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

64] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

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

66] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

67] Great minds think alike

68] That which is easily done is soon believed

69] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

70] Rats know the ways of rats

71] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

72] Prove your friend ere you have need

73] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

74] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

75] Money is the sinews of war

76] He who does no good, does evil enough

77] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

78] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

79] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

80] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

81] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

82] Give the devil his due

83] An honest good look covers many faults.

84] Do as I say, not as I do

85] He that wants health wants all

86] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

87] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

88] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

89] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

90] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

91] Old foxes want no tutors

92] Fine words dress ill deeds

93] The wisest of the wise may err.

94] Things are only worth one makes them worth

95] Come with the wind, got with the water

96] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

97] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

98] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

99] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

100] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.