Famous Proverbs

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

2] One potter envies another

3] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

4] Might knows no right

5] A hungry man smells meat afar off

6] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

7] Go while the going is good

8] Art improves Nature

9] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

10] In haste is error

11] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

12] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

13] If today will not, tomorrow may

14] The young will sow their wild oats

15] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

16] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

17] He who begins many things, finishes but few

18] An open door may tempt a saint

19] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

20] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

21] The labourer is worthy of his hire

22] You may know by a handful the whole sack

23] It is more pain to do nothing than something

24] Everything in moderation.

25] Live and let live

26] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

27] It is no use crying over spilt milk

28] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

29] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

30] Great minds think alike

31] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

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

33] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

34] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

35] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

36] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

37] The young will sow their wild oats

38] An old man is a bed full of bones

39] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

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

41] First think, and then speak

42] Poverty is not a crime

43] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

44] You cannot serve God and Mammon

45] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

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

47] It will be the same a hundred years hence

48] The darkest place is under the candlestick

49] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

50] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

51] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

52] The more wicked, the more lucky

53] Time has wings

54] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

55] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

56] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

57] It is as natural to die as to be born

58] The dog is a lion in his own house

59] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

60] Liars should have good memories

61] Men make houses, women make homes

62] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

63] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

64] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

65] Wine unveils the words of the heart

66] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

67] God made the country ,and man made the town

68] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

69] One thief will not rob another

70] Truth is stranger than fiction

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

72] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

73] Where there are reeds, there is water

74] Men are not angles

75] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

76] Beauty is but skin-deep

77] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

78] No man is a hero to his valet

79] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

80] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

81] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

82] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

83] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

84] All heiresses are beautiful.

85] Covetousness brings nothing home

86] He that speaks not, God hears not

87] He that obey cannot command

88] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

89] The hole calls the thief

90] A good name is better than riches

91] Barking dogs seldom bite

92] Danger makes men devout

93] There is no tree but bears some fruit

94] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

95] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

96] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

97] Every path has a puddle

98] Many dishes make many diseases

99] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

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