Famous Proverbs

1] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

2] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

3] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

4] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

5] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

6] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

7] Wink at small faults

8] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

9] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

10] Silence is also speech

11] It takes two to make a quarrel

12] A willful man will have his way

13] Patience is a plaster for all sores

14] Dead men don’t bite

15] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

16] Fair face, foul heart

17] Shrouds have no pockets

18] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

19] First thrive then wive

20] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

21] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

22] He that repairs not a part, builds all

23] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

24] Little and often fills the purse

25] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

26] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

27] A man’s studies pass in to his character

28] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

29] Black will take no other hue

30] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

31] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

32] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

33] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

34] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

35] Little by little and bit by bit.

36] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

37] Much babbling is not without offence

38] Wedlock is padlock

39] Handsome is as handsome does

40] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

41] Shrouds have no pockets

42] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

43] Patience surpasses learning

44] Judge not the tree by its bark

45] Keep some till further more come

46] Patience is a virtue

47] There are more men threatened than stricken

48] No land without stones, or meat without bones

49] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

50] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

51] Every path has a puddle

52] Take time by the forelock

53] A man can die but once

54] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

55] Strike while the iron is hot

56] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

57] One thief will not rob another

58] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

59] Virtue joints man to god

60] Silence is also speech

61] Fine feathers make fine birds.

62] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

63] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

64] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

65] Judge not of men and things at first sight

66] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

67] All truths are not to be told

68] Better no doctor at all than three.

69] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

70] III luck is good for something

71] If today will not, tomorrow may

72] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

73] Love delights in praise

74] A good name is better than a golden girdle

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

76] Think of ease, but work on.

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

78] What is deferred is not abandoned

79] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

80] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

81] Care is no cure

82] The end crowns the work.

83] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

84] Grasp all, lose all

85] Sow thin and mow thin

86] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

87] It costs more to do ill than to do well

88] Names are debts

89] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

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

91] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

92] Silence is golden

93] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

94] Love is blind

95] Practice makes perfect

96] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

97] A single rose does not mean spring

98] One good turn deserves another

99] The unexpected always happens.

100] One is never too old to learn