Famous Proverbs

1] Birds of a feather flock together

2] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

3] The first blow is half the battle

4] Sickness shows us what we are

5] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

6] Care brings grey hair.

7] Valour delights in the test

8] A burnt child dreads the fire

9] Two heads are better than one

10] Many dishes make many diseases

11] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

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

13] A joke’s a very serious thing

14] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

15] Better a bare foot than none

16] Dumb men get no lands

17] One must be a servant before one can be a master

18] Every flow must have its ebb

19] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

20] Little things are great to little men

21] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

22] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

23] The weakest goes to the wall

24] Like mother, like daughter

25] He that burns most, shines most

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

27] The golden age was never the present age

28] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

29] The worse luck now, the better another time

30] Hasty work, double work,

31] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

32] Conscience does make cowards of us all

33] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

34] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

35] Make hay while the sun shines

36] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

37] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

38] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

39] In my own house, I am king

40] Experience is the best teacher

41] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

42] More than enough is too much

43] Flesh is frail

44] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

45] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

46] Blood will have blood

47] Everything would fain live

48] Extremes meet

49] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

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

51] He that has no money needs no purse

52] Every dog is a lion at home

53] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

54] He that seeks trouble never misses

55] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

56] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

57] Busiest men find the most time

58] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

59] Small is beautiful

60] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

61] A man may learn wit every day.

62] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

63] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

64] Death alone can kill hope

65] The biter is sometimes bit

66] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

67] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

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

69] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

70] Everything comes to him who waits

71] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

72] No pain, no cure

73] Keep something for a rainy day

74] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

75] At a good bargain thinks twice

76] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

77] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

78] It is more blessed to give than to receive

79] In indecision itself, grief is present.

80] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

81] One good turn deserves another

82] As you sow, so shall you reap

83] Good ware makes quick market

84] Light grows the burden which is well borne

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

86] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

87] What is word but wind?

88] Once a use and ever a custom

89] He who comes first, grinds first.

90] Children and chickens must be always picking

91] First try and then trust

92] All’s fish that comes to the net

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

94] Spend and be free, but make no waste

95] Men are not to be measured in inches

96] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

97] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

98] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

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

100] Every man to his trade.