Famous Proverbs

1] The devil knows many things because he is old

2] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

3] Where there is no trust there is no love

4] High places have their precipices

5] Suffering does not manifest itself

6] Cheap is dear in the long run.

7] There’s no great loss without some gain

8] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

9] He knows which side his bread is buttered

10] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

11] Hope often deludes the foolish man

12] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

13] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

14] Better an apple given than eaten

15] Penny wise, pound foolish

16] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

17] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

18] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

19] A hungry man smells meat afar off

20] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

21] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

22] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

23] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

24] What’s done is done

25] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

26] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

27] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

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

29] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

30] Either mend or end

31] One barber shaves another gratis

32] Content is better than riches

33] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

34] You win some, you lose some

35] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

36] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

37] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

38] Knowledge is power

39] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

40] Never refuse a good offer

41] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

42] The ass that brays most eats

43] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

44] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

45] Do not limp before the lame

46] Hunger is the best sauce

47] The pot calls the kettle black

48] One swallow does not make a summer

49] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

50] The best things come in small packages

51] You are never too old to learn

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

53] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

54] Will is the cause of woe

55] Live not to eat, but eat to live

56] Death keeps no calendar

57] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

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

59] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

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

61] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

62] An oak is not felled at one stroke

63] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

64] East or west, home is best

65] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

66] A man may learn wit every day.

67] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

68] Like mistress, like maid

69] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

70] You cannot have your cake and eat it

71] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

72] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

73] A fool always rushes to the fore.

74] He that has a wife, has strife

75] Love your friend with his fault

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

77] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

78] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

79] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

80] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

81] Think on the end before you begin

82] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

83] Garbage in, garbage out

84] What is worth doing is worth doing well

85] Envy never enriched any man.

86] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

87] Open confession is good for the soul

88] Words bind men

89] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

90] Rich folk have many friends

91] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

92] A good face is a letter of recommendation

93] Two wrongs do not make a right

94] Kindness lies in one side of the house

95] An old horse knows the route

96] Hunger is sharper than the sword

97] After a storm comes a calm

98] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

99] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

100] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself