Famous Proverbs

1] While there is life, there is hope

2] Wise men are caught in wiles

3] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

4] Experience is the best teacher

5] Friendship should not be all on one

6] Respect is greater from a distance

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

8] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

9] He is wise who looks ahead

10] Keep some till further more come

11] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

12] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

13] Better an apple given than eaten

14] Books and friends should be few but good

15] Death does not recognize strength

16] Fair without, false within

17] He who last, laughs longest.

18] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

19] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

20] A cat has nine lives

21] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

22] No feast lasts forever.

23] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

24] He that has no shame has no conscience

25] Never hit a man when he’s down

26] A fool may give a wise man counsel

27] The end justifies the means

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

29] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

30] He who leaps high must take a long run

31] Don’t take your harp to the party

32] Every path has a puddle

33] One thief will not rob another

34] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

35] Union is strength.

36] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

37] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

38] Might knows no right

39] Like father, like son

40] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

41] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

42] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

43] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

44] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

45] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

46] Pitchers have ears

47] A mouse may help a lion

48] Paddle your own canoe

49] An evil life is a kind of death.

50] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

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

52] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

53] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

54] A little impatience will spoil great plans

55] The bait hides the hook

56] All for one, and one for all.

57] Don’t put the cart before the horse

58] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

59] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

60] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

61] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

62] There are more men threatened than stricken

63] Never do evil that good may come of it

64] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

65] Long absent, soon forgotten

66] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

67] A good conscience is a constant feast

68] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

69] It takes two to make a quarrel

70] Charity begins at home.

71] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

72] A great city, a great solitude

73] Poverty is not a crime

74] Children speak only words they have heard.

75] One man sows and another reaps

76] They that dance must pay the fiddler

77] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

78] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

79] All glory comes from daring to begin

80] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

81] Haste makes waste

82] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

83] He that desires but little has no deed of much

84] The best things in life are free

85] Years know more than books

86] Little wealth, little care

87] There is no blindness like ignorance

88] No honest man ever repented his honesty

89] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

90] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

91] Never spur a willing horse

92] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

93] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

94] An old fox is not easily snared

95] When the word is out it belongs to another

96] Everything is good in its season

97] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

98] Cheats never prosper

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

100] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.