Famous Proverbs

1] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

2] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

3] Never spend your money before you have it

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

5] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

6] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

7] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

8] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

9] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

10] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

11] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

12] Hard words break no bones

13] The righteous man sins before an open chest

14] You cannot make bricks without straw

15] You can’t win them all

16] Empty vessels make the most sound

17] Better sit still than rise and fall

18] There is no accounting for tastes

19] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

20] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

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

22] He that repairs not a part, builds all

23] The wisest of the wise may err.

24] Fool’s haste is no speed

25] Make hay while the sun shines

26] All covet all lose.

27] It is a great victory that comes without blood

28] If you have known one, you have known them all

29] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

30] Coming events cast their shadows before

31] A bad workman always blames his tools

32] True doctrines require no miracles

33] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

34] The greatest step is that out of doors

35] Every flow must have its ebb

36] Nature is the true law

37] Give and take is fair play

38] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

39] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

40] In haste is error

41] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

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

43] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

44] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

45] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

46] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

47] A friend is easier lost than found

48] Wise men silent, fools talk

49] It is too late to look up after you have collided

50] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

51] Lose a leg rather than a life

52] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

53] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

54] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

55] Ill comes often on the back worse

56] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

57] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

58] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

59] Wrong has no warrant

60] Good ware makes quick market

61] The good intention excuses the bad action

62] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

63] Patience is a virtue

64] Human blood is all of a colour

65] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

66] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

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

68] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

69] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

70] A closed mouth catches no files

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

72] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

73] He that speaks well, flights well

74] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

75] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

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

77] Past cure, past care

78] He laughs best who laughs last

79] First think, and then speak

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

81] The beaten road is the safest

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

83] Home is where the heart is

84] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

85] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

86] He stands not surely that never slips

87] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

88] Saying is one thing, and doing another

89] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

90] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

91] You cannot make bricks without straw

92] Birds of a feather flock together

93] Never too late to late to repent

94] Names and natures do often agree

95] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

96] All’s well that ends well

97] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

98] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

99] The rich knows not who is his friend

100] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose