Famous Proverbs

1] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

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

3] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

4] Often and little eating makes a man fat

5] Expectation is better than realisation

6] A change is as good as rest

7] He travels the fastest who travels alone

8] Time lost cannot be recalled

9] Every commodity has its discommodity

10] Petty laws breed great crimes

11] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

12] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

13] Praise is always pleasant

14] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

15] The best things carried to excess are wrong

16] Kill two birds with one stone

17] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

18] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

19] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

20] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

21] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

22] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

23] Let the buyer beware

24] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

25] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

26] Hope often deludes the foolish man

27] Change brings life

28] Out of sight, out of mind

29] A great city, a great solitude

30] True doctrines require no miracles

31] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

32] A fool may give a wise man counsel

33] A little is better than none

34] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

35] One today is worth two tomorrows

36] Sickness soaks the purse

37] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

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

39] The wisest of the wise may err.

40] He who sows, trusts in God

41] He that has good money, gives few alms

42] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

43] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

44] Fair play’s a jewel

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

46] A rich man can do nothing wrong

47] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

48] The absent party is always to blame.

49] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

50] Some are wise and some are otherwise

51] Ambition loses many a man

52] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

53] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

54] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

55] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

56] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

57] Praise no man till he is dead.

58] A golden key opens every door

59] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

60] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

61] Birds once snared fear all bushes

62] He that has good money, gives few alms

63] Waste not, want not

64] Plain dealing is best

65] There is no accounting for tastes

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

67] Wishes can never fill a sack

68] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

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

70] The best of friends must part

71] Many drops make a shower

72] You cannot have it both ways

73] A little impatience will spoil great plans

74] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

75] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

76] Do unto others as they should do unto you

77] Kill two birds with one stone

78] The labourer is worthy of his hire

79] Crows are all completely black

80] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

81] A fool believes everything

82] Not even Hercules could contend against two

83] All truths are not to be told

84] A fault confessed is half redressed

85] Small is the seed of every greatness

86] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

87] The tongue stings

88] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

89] Kind hearts are more than coronets

90] No man is content with his lot

91] It is not work that kills but worry

92] Ill gotten, ill spent

93] There is no rose without a thorn

94] A good name is sooner lost than won

95] A jest breaks no bones

96] The early bird catches the worm

97] It is as natural to die as to be born

98] No man limps because another is hurt

99] Make the best of a bad bargain

100] Of evil manners, spring good laws