Famous Proverbs

1] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

2] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

3] Better be born lucky than wise.

4] You cannot serve God and Mammon

5] What’s in a name?

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

7] Money is the sinews of war

8] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

9] Pleasant hours fly past

10] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

11] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

12] Love is lawless.

13] It is all in the day’s work

14] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

15] Where there is no might, right loses itself

16] Wine unveils the words of the heart

17] Patient waiters are no losers

18] He that praises himself, spatters himself

19] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

20] Don’t ride the high horse

21] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

22] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

23] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

24] Slow but sure wins the race

25] There is a black sheep in every flock

26] One must howl with the wolves

27] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

28] The slowest barker is the surest biter

29] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

30] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

31] Idleness is the root of all evil

32] The good die young.

33] Do as say, not as I do

34] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

35] Garbage in, garbage out

36] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

37] There’s a time and place for everything

38] Honest is the best policy

39] Innocence is no protection

40] A good garden may have some ill weeds

41] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

42] It is more blessed to give than to receive

43] No flying without wings.

44] Union (or Unity) is strength

45] Findings are keepings

46] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

47] Gold may be bought too dear

48] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

49] Speech is silver, silence is golden

50] Law makers should not be law breakers

51] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

52] One father is more than a hundred school masters

53] He that eats well should do his duty well

54] Talk much end err much

55] There’s no great loss without some gain

56] You may have too much of a good thing

57] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

58] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

59] Look on the bright side

60] Too long burden makes weary bones

61] A soft answer turns away wrath

62] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

63] Nothing succeeds like success

64] A great city, a great solitude

65] Love your friend with his fault

66] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

67] There is no royal road to learning

68] Second thoughts are best

69] The tailor makes the man

70] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

71] Better sit still than rise and fall

72] Every man has his faults

73] The wisest of the wise may err.

74] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

75] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

76] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

77] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

78] Silence is golden

79] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

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

81] Prove your friend ere you have need

82] Like father, like son

83] Live and Learn

84] All meat pleases not all mouths

85] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

86] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

87] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

88] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

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

90] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

91] Adam’s ale is the best brew

92] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

93] Erring is not heating

94] Experience is the mother of wisdom

95] Truth is mighty and will prevail

96] In the land of hope there is never any winter

97] Wine is the best broom for trouble

98] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

99] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

100] All lay loads on a willing horse