Famous Proverbs

1] An obedient wife commands her husband

2] A merchant that gains not, loses

3] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

4] Fortune is blind

5] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

6] Great talkers are never great doers

7] Dying is as natural as living

8] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

9] It takes all sorts to make a world

10] Every man to his trade.

11] All is fair in love and war

12] Strength grows stronger by being tried

13] Almost’ never killed a fly.

14] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

15] Money can influence even the spirits

16] Parents are patterns

17] He who considers too much will perform little.

18] Penny and penny laid up will be many

19] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

20] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

21] Life begins only in success

22] Don’t play with fire

23] Some are wise and some are otherwise

24] Poor men’s words have little weight

25] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

26] The hole calls the thief

27] As you sow, so shall you reap

28] Birds of a feather flock together

29] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

30] Manners and money make a gentleman

31] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

32] Care is no cure

33] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

34] The weeds overgrow the corn.

35] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

36] He that cannot ask, cannot live

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

38] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

39] The race is got by running

40] Where there’s a will there’s a way

41] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

42] Judge not, that ye be not judged

43] Misery loves company.

44] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

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

46] Virtue is its own reward

47] Do as say, not as I do

48] Great actions speak minds

49] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

50] Forewarned is forearmed

51] Small is the seed of every greatness

52] Every flow must have its ebb

53] It is not every question that deserves an answer

54] Innocence is no protection

55] Live and Learn

56] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

57] Great minds think alike

58] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

59] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

60] Every advantage has its disadvantage

61] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

62] Who suffers much is silent

63] Poverty is no sin

64] Hunger is sharper than the sword

65] Walls have ears

66] Spare the rod and spoil the child

67] Misfortune makes foes of friends

68] Danger makes men devout

69] A beggar can never be bankrupt

70] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

71] Better to ask the way than go astray.

72] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

73] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

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

75] Precept begins, examples accomplish

76] The longest day must have an end

77] There is many a fair thing full false

78] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

79] A fault confessed is half redressed

80] Young colts will canter.

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

82] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

83] A friend is easier lost than found

84] A short cut is often a wrong cut

85] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

86] The hand that gives, gathers

87] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

88] Desire beautifies what is ugly

89] The exception proves the rule

90] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

91] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

92] Necessity knows no law

93] You cannot make bricks without straw

94] Love will find a way

95] Despair gives courage to a coward

96] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

97] Patience is a virtue

98] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

99] The early man ever borrows from the late man

100] No wrong without a remedy