Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

2] The tailor makes the man

3] Quickly come, quickly go

4] When wine sinks, words swim

5] Better bend than break

6] Variety takes away satiety

7] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

8] Far fowls have fair feather

9] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

10] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

11] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

12] There is no blindness like ignorance

13] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

14] Fine feathers make fine birds.

15] Tell a lie and stick to it.

16] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

17] Better to ask the way than go astray.

18] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

19] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

20] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

21] Great oaks from little acorns grow

22] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

23] Even Homer sometimes nods

24] A man without a wife is but half a man

25] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

26] Every dog is a lion at home

27] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

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

29] Youth will have its course.

30] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

31] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

32] Judge not of men and things at first sight

33] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

34] No flying without wings.

35] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

36] Every man has his price

37] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

38] The sun shines upon all alike.

39] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

40] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

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

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

43] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

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

45] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

46] A penny saved is a penny gained

47] Lookers-on see most of the game

48] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

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

50] The bait hides the hook

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

52] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

53] Keep some till further more come

54] Grin and bear it

55] Example is better than precept

56] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

57] Exchange is no robbery

58] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

59] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

60] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

61] Where there is peace, God is

62] First things first

63] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

64] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

65] He who sows, trusts in God

66] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

67] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

68] Truth conquers all things

69] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

70] New brooms sweep clean

71] Life begins only in success

72] Men do more things through habit than reason

73] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

74] Necessity knows no law

75] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

76] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

77] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

78] No good building without a good foundation.

79] Never grieve for what you cannot help

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

81] Possibilities are infinite

82] Do unto others as they should do unto you

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

84] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

85] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

86] Where there is no might, right loses itself

87] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

88] A fault confessed is half redressed

89] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

90] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

91] He who last, laughs longest.

92] Use makes mastery

93] Better unborn than untaught

94] Like mistress, like maid

95] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

96] Where there is whispering there is lying

97] What is word but wind?

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

99] Remember, you are but a man

100] In indecision itself, grief is present.