Famous Proverbs

1] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

2] Great actions speak minds

3] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

4] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

5] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

6] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

7] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

8] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

9] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

10] Pitchers have ears

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

12] Experience is the mother of wisdom

13] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

14] To teach is to learn twice over

15] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

16] A word is enough to the wise

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

18] What is new cannot be true

19] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

20] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

21] Good luck beats early rising

22] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

23] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

24] Words bind men

25] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

26] Revenge is sweet

27] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

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

29] No man is born wise or learned

30] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

31] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

32] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

33] Don’t meet trouble half-way

34] Travel broadens the mind

35] Wash your dirty linen at home

36] The good intention excuses the bad action

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

38] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

39] Better late than never

40] Time and tide wait for no man

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

42] Better to wear out than rust out

43] Paddle your own canoe

44] You cannot serve God and Mammon

45] Learning is the eye of the mind

46] Barking dogs seldom bite

47] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

48] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

49] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

50] Money is the sinew of affairs

51] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

52] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

53] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

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

55] Think of ease, but work on.

56] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

57] Experience is the best teacher

58] Might is right

59] For a web begun, God sends the thread

60] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

61] The absent party is always to blame.

62] A little body often harbours a great soul

63] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

64] Each day brings its own bread

65] He that can stay. Obtains

66] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

67] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

68] One is what one eats

69] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

70] The end makes all equal

71] Man cannot live by bread alone

72] Knowledge is power

73] Every man has his faults

74] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

75] Eat to live and not live to eat.

76] One must howl with the wolves

77] Beware of a silent man and still water

78] There is nothing new under the sun

79] No man is indispensable

80] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

81] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

82] Old cattle breed not

83] Good hand, good hire

84] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

85] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

86] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

87] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

88] Kind hearts are more than coronets

89] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

90] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

91] Best is cheapest

92] An empty sack cannot stand upright

93] Keep some till further more come

94] Talk much end err much

95] A good paymaster never wants workmen

96] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

97] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

98] A good wife is a good prize

99] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

100] The thief doth fear each bush an offer