Famous Proverbs

1] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

2] He laughs best who laughs last

3] Weak things united become strong

4] Truth conquers all things

5] The longest day must have an end

6] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

7] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

8] Better late than never, but better never late

9] There is nothing new under the sun

10] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

11] Open a book and you profit by what you read

12] Wiles help weak folk

13] Give credit where credit is due

14] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

15] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

16] Hunger is sharper than the sword

17] Children and chickens must be always picking

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

19] Keep something for a rainy day

20] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

21] Wedlock is padlock

22] Fire is a good servant a bad master

23] A good conscience is a sure card

24] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

25] He that desires but little has no deed of much

26] After the extreme of cold comes spring

27] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

28] Half a loaf is better than do bread

29] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

30] It is useless to flog a dead horse

31] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

32] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

33] First think, and then speak

34] He that obey cannot command

35] Never too late to late to repent

36] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

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

38] It takes a wise man to be a fool

39] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

40] Better to be safe than sorry.

41] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

42] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

43] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

44] The lion had need of the mouse

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

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

47] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

48] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

49] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

50] He that has plenty of goods will have more

51] He who demands does not command

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

53] All glory comes from daring to begin

54] Birds once snared fear all bushes

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

56] The absent saint gets no candle

57] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

58] All griefs with bread are less

59] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

60] The falling drops hollow the stone

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

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

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

64] A learned man has always riches in himself

65] Distance lends enchantment to the view

66] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

67] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

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

69] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

70] Silence never makes mistakes

71] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

72] All’s fair in love and war

73] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

74] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

75] Money makes the man

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

77] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

78] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

79] Revenge never repairs an injury

80] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

81] Judge not, that ye be not judged

82] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

83] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

84] Lucky men need no counsel

85] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

86] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

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

88] Far from eye, far from heart

89] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

90] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

91] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

92] Better at home than a mile from it

93] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

94] Out of sight, out of mind

95] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

96] Long looked for, comes at last

97] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

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

99] Patience is the remedy of the world

100] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh