Famous Proverbs

1] Patience is the remedy of the world

2] Findings are keepings

3] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

4] Many eyes upon the king

5] So many men, so many opinions

6] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

7] As you bake, so shall you eat.

8] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

9] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

10] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

11] A good tongue is a good weapon

12] A closed mouth catches no files

13] Woes unite foes

14] Better be alone than in bad company

15] Call no man happy till he is dead

16] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

17] Every may be has a may not be

18] Soft fire makes sweet malt

19] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

20] A man may bear till his back breaks

21] A beggar can never be bankrupt

22] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

23] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

24] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

25] Error cannot be defended but by error

26] Might is right

27] Hungry bellies have no ears

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

29] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

30] God is a sure paymaster

31] A man can do no more than he can

32] Experience is good if not bought too dear

33] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

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

35] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

36] The weakest goes to the wall

37] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

38] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

39] Much law but little justice

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

41] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

42] Manners make the man

43] When wine sinks, words swim

44] You can’t win them all

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

46] Garbage in, garbage out

47] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

48] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

49] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

50] Marriages are made in heaven

51] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

52] One man sows and another reaps

53] Good broth may be made in an old pot

54] Wash your dirty linen at home

55] Lovers are madmen

56] Love knows no limit

57] Covetousness breaks the sack

58] Better belly burst than good meat lost

59] Love delights in praise

60] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

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

62] Dog does not eat dog

63] Love will go through stone walls

64] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

65] What the king wills, that the law wills

66] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

67] Every medal has its reverse

68] Wise men silent, fools talk

69] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

70] God makes the back for the burden

71] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

72] He who serves is not free

73] By his deeds we know a man

74] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

75] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

76] Sow thin and mow thin

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

78] Often and little eating makes a man fat

79] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

80] It is too late to call back yesterday

81] Water is the king of food

82] The owl thinks her own young fairest

83] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

84] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

85] Woes unite foes

86] All doors open to courtesy

87] You cannot make bricks without straw

88] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

89] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

90] Hard words break no bones

91] Walls have ears

92] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

93] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

94] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

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

96] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

97] Rich folk have many friends

98] A watched pot never boils

99] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

100] It takes all sorts to make a world