Famous Proverbs

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

2] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

3] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

4] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

5] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

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

7] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

8] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

9] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

10] A man of courage never wants weapons

11] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

12] Time has wings

13] Ill luck is good for something

14] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

15] A burnt child dreads the fire

16] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

17] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

18] He that wants health wants all

19] Fool’s haste is no speed

20] When you do not know what to do – wait.

21] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

22] Rome was not built in a day

23] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

24] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

25] Choose thy company before thy drink

26] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

27] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

28] Wisdom is better than strength

29] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

30] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

31] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

32] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

33] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

34] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

35] There is no redemption from hell

36] Light grows the burden which is well borne

37] The word is far him who has patience

38] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

39] Pitchers have ears

40] He who begins many things, finishes but few

41] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

42] After the extreme of cold comes spring

43] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

44] He that has no money needs no purse

45] He who excuses himself accuses himself

46] Words are but wind

47] No hair so small but has his shadow

48] By his deeds we know a man

49] Mirth is the sugar of life

50] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

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

52] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

53] Morning dreams come true

54] All things are difficult before they are easy

55] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

56] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

57] In haste is error

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

59] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

60] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

61] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

62] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

63] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

64] There’s always room at the top

65] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

66] Better no doctor at all than three.

67] He that cannot ask, cannot live

68] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

69] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

70] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

71] There is no royal road to learning

72] The best is often the enemy of the good

73] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

74] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

75] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

76] The tide must be taken when it comes

77] Ill luck is good for something

78] Everyone to his taste

79] Worse things happen at sea

80] Time flies

81] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

82] Wake not a sleeping lion

83] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

84] A little too late, is much too late

85] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

86] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

87] More than enough is too much

88] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

89] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

90] Kill two birds with one stone

91] When one door shuts, another opens

92] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

93] There is a great difference between words and deeds

94] Words and feathers the wind carries away

95] Each day brings its own bread

96] Each day brings its own bread

97] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

98] Of evil manners, spring good laws

99] Soft fire makes sweet malt

100] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil