Famous Proverbs

1] Content is better than riches

2] The good is often the enemy of the best

3] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

4] Silence and thinking can no man offend

5] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

6] Every path has a puddle

7] Every little helps

8] A good conscience is a sure card

9] A word is enough to the wise

10] At open doors, dogs come in

11] A true man and a thief think not the same

12] Give and take is fair play

13] Poverty is no sin

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

15] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

16] Laws were made to be broke

17] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

18] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

19] Love me, love the crows on my roof

20] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

21] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

22] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

23] One man sows and another reaps

24] One of these days is none of these days

25] You cannot make a crab walk straight

26] Misfortune makes foes of friends

27] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

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

29] Do it now

30] A bribe will enter without knocking

31] What is worth doing is worth doing well

32] Open confession is good for the soul

33] Vice makes virtue shine

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

35] It is easier to pull down than to build

36] Fortune favours fools

37] New meat begets a new appetite

38] Flesh is frail

39] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

40] One today is worth two tomorrows

41] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

42] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

43] By falling we learn to go safely

44] Great actions speak minds

45] There is no royal road to learning

46] The devil dances in an empty pocket

47] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

48] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

49] Every dog has his day

50] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

51] Intimacy lessens fame

52] No man is wise at all times

53] Money is power

54] Good broth may be made in an old pot

55] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

56] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

57] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

58] Men are known by the company they keep.

59] A good heart cannot lie.

60] Prospect is often better than possession

61] No one betrays himself by silence

62] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

63] A cat may look at a king

64] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

65] It is misery enough to have once been happy

66] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

67] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

68] A good name is better than riches

69] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

70] A short cut is often a wrong cut

71] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

72] Health without money is half an ague

73] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

74] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

75] A joke’s a very serious thing

76] Might is right

77] Love is lawless.

78] Morning dreams come true

79] Love cannot be compelled

80] Good words are worth much and cost little

81] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

82] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

83] Every Jack must have his Jill

84] So many men, so many opinions

85] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

86] Crust is better than no bread

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

88] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

89] Without luck, it is better not to be born

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

91] A bad excuse is better than none at all

92] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

93] In indecision itself, grief is present.

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

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

96] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

97] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

98] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

99] Debt is an evil conscience

100] Corruption of the best becomes the worst