Famous Proverbs

1] Flesh is frail

2] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

3] First come, first served

4] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

5] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

6] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

7] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

8] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

9] There is safety in numbers

10] Least said, soonest mended

11] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

12] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

13] The mob tramples on the coward

14] It is easy to be wise after the event

15] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

16] Learn not and know not

17] Love delights in praise

18] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

19] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

20] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

21] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

22] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

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

24] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

25] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

26] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

27] He that lives ill, fear follows him

28] Everything comes to him who waits

29] Love me, love the crows on my roof

30] Love delights in praise

31] We shall lie all alike in our graves

32] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

33] He that travels far knows much

34] He that eats well should do his duty well

35] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

36] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

37] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

38] Conscience does make cowards of us all

39] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

40] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

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

42] Quietness is a great treasure

43] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

44] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

45] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

46] Speech is silver, silence is golden

47] Dirty linen should be washed at home

48] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

49] Ambition loses many a man

50] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

51] Health is not value till sickness comes

52] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

53] There are two sides to every question

54] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

55] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

56] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

57] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

58] Blood is thicker than water

59] Come with the wind, got with the water

60] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

61] The receiver is as bad as the thief

62] Young colts will canter.

63] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

64] One today is worth two tomorrows

65] He laughs best who laughs last

66] If you want peace, prepare for war

67] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

68] Liars should have good memories

69] Learn to walk before you run

70] All truths are not to be told

71] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

72] A straight stick is crooked in water

73] No man is born wise or learned

74] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

75] Nature abhors a vacuum

76] Rich folk have many friends

77] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

78] Live and Learn

79] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

80] It is too late to husband when all is spent

81] Idleness is the root of all evil

82] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

83] The worse luck now, the better another time

84] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

85] He that has a wife, has strife

86] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

87] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

88] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

89] A woman’s work is never done

90] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

91] There is a black sheep in every flock

92] Bad excuses are worse than none.

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

94] Love can find a way

95] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

96] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

97] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

98] Necessity is the mother of invention

99] Forewarned is forearmed

100] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.