Famous Proverbs

1] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

2] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

3] Praise is always pleasant

4] Grin and bear it

5] A little learning is dangerous thing

6] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

7] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

8] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

9] You must grin and bear it

10] All truths are not to be told

11] Virtue carries a lean purse

12] Love is never without jealousy

13] He knows the water best who has waded through it

14] God’s help is better than the early rising

15] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

16] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

17] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

18] Silence gives (or means) consent

19] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

20] Truth is stranger than fiction

21] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

22] Mere wishes are silly fishes

23] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

24] Everything comes to him who waits

25] Evil to him who evil thinks.

26] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

27] What is word but wind?

28] What’s done cannot be undone

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

30] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

31] Moderation in all things

32] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

33] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

34] Familiarity breeds contempt

35] A prophet is without honour in his own country

36] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

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

38] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

39] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

40] Acorns were good till bread was found

41] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

42] Virtue has all things in itself

43] First catch your hare

44] When one door shuts, another opens

45] Big words seldom go with good deeds

46] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

47] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

48] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

49] The king can do no wrong

50] Much learning makes men mad

51] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

52] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

53] There is no smoke without fire

54] Like mother, like daughter

55] What everybody says must be true

56] The garment worn determines how one is served

57] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

58] The mean is the best

59] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

60] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

61] All things that great men do are well done

62] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

63] Work won’t kill but worry will.

64] Example, is better than precept

65] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

66] Speech is silver, silence is golden

67] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

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

69] Train the child in the way he should go.

70] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

71] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

72] Time and tide wait for no man

73] It is too late to call back yesterday

74] The age of miracles is past

75] Better an open enemy than a false friend

76] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

77] No land without stones, or meat without bones

78] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

79] He that repairs not a part, builds all

80] A gift much expected is paid, not given

81] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

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

83] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

84] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

85] A penny saved is a penny gained

86] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

87] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

88] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

89] What the king wills, that the law wills

90] Every oak has been an acorn

91] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

92] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

93] Love and business teach eloquence

94] A good husband makes a good wife

95] Health is better than wealth

96] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

97] Learn to walk before you run

98] If you play with fire you get burnt

99] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

100] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry