Famous Proverbs

1] Man cannot live by bread alone

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

3] Either mend or end

4] Faint heart never won fair lady

5] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

6] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

7] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

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

9] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

10] No road is long with good company

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

12] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

13] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

14] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

15] A good garden may have some ill weeds

16] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

17] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

18] Birds of a feather flock together

19] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

20] A single rose does not mean spring

21] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

22] If the cap fits, wear it

23] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

24] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

25] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

26] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

27] A man in debt is caught in a net

28] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

29] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

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

31] One thief will not rob another

32] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

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

34] Actions speak louder than words

35] Wisdom is better than strength

36] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

37] There is nothing new under the sun

38] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

39] One good turn deserves another

40] It is the first step that is troublesome

41] Where there is no might, right loses itself

42] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

43] Hope often deludes the foolish man

44] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

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

46] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

47] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

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

49] Truth is stranger than fiction

50] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

51] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

52] Good words are worth much and cost little

53] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

54] A good word stills great anger

55] It’s a long lane that has no turning

56] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

57] Every dog is a lion at home

58] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

59] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

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

61] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

62] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

63] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

64] Anger without power is folly

65] Do unto others as they should do unto you

66] There are more ways to the wood than one.

67] Weapons breed peace

68] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

69] All glory comes from daring to begin

70] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

71] The deed comes back upon the doer.

72] He is wise who looks ahead

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

74] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

75] Poverty is no sin

76] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

77] He who considers too much will perform little.

78] Out of sight, out of mind

79] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

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

81] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

82] A rolling stone gathers no moss

83] Anger managers everything badly.

84] He travels the fastest who travels alone

85] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

86] Gifts blind the eyes.

87] He that cannot ask, cannot live

88] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

89] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

90] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

91] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

92] Love cannot be compelled

93] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

94] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

95] Truth is god’s daughter

96] He who demands does not command

97] One cannot love and be wise

98] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

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

100] No land without stones, or meat without bones