Famous Proverbs

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

2] Health and wealth create beauty

3] The mean is the best

4] Wrong has no warrant

5] Better be alone than in bad company

6] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

7] Love your friend with his fault

8] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

9] Man punishes the action but God the intention

10] He that knows little often repeats it

11] Do not triumph before the victory

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

13] Habit is second nature

14] There is a black sheep in every flock

15] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

16] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

17] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

18] The race is got by running

19] The Pen is mightier than the sword

20] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

21] Love conquers all

22] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

23] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

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

25] Judge not the tree by its bark

26] Dead men tell no tales

27] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

28] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

29] A good garden may have some ill weeds

30] Love laughs at locksmiths

31] Diamond cuts diamond

32] Patient men with the day.

33] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

34] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

35] Out of debt, out of danger

36] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

37] No man is born wise or learned

38] Time flies

39] Love me, love my dog

40] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

41] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

42] Law makers should not be law breakers

43] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

44] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

45] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

46] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

47] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

48] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

49] In everything consider the end

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

51] Slow and steady wins the race

52] United we stand, divided we fall

53] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

54] Half a word is enough for a wise man

55] A friend in need is a friend indeed

56] He who has seen little marvels much

57] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

58] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

59] All truths are not to be told

60] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

61] Many dishes make many diseases

62] Wise men silent, fools talk

63] Make the best of a bad job

64] An old dog barks not in vain

65] All men are mortal

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

67] Anger without power is folly

68] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

69] The tide must be taken when it comes

70] A bad workman always blames his tools

71] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

72] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

73] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

74] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

75] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

76] It is best to be on the safe side

77] New lords, new laws

78] A black hen lays a white egg

79] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

80] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

81] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

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

83] Open a book and you profit by what you read

84] The more you get, the more you want

85] Fortune is blind

86] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

87] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

88] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

89] Life means strife

90] Waste not, want not

91] Coming events cast their shadows before

92] Better late than never

93] The word is far him who has patience

94] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

95] Every groom is a king at home

96] Once bitten, twice shy.

97] Charity begins at home.

98] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

99] Necessity is the mother of invention

100] Learn to walk before you run