Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot make bricks without straw

2] Wrong has no warrant

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

4] No man is his craft’s master the first day

5] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

6] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

7] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

8] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

9] The poor suffer all the wrong

10] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

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

12] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

13] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

14] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

15] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

16] Man punishes the action but God the intention

17] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

18] Good luck beats early rising

19] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

20] It is good fishing in troubled waters

21] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

22] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

23] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

24] Loyalty is worth more than money

25] Success makes a fool seem wise.

26] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

27] He that is down need fear no fall

28] Bread is the staff of life.

29] Money is the sinews of war

30] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

31] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

32] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

33] Save your breath to cool the porridge

34] In indecision itself, grief is present.

35] A fool and his money are soon parted

36] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

37] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

38] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

39] Love and business teach eloquence

40] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

41] Never too late to late to repent

42] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

43] What costs little is little esteemed

44] When bees area old, they yield n honey

45] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

46] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

47] You cannot have it both ways

48] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

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

50] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

51] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

52] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

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

54] A living dog is better than a dead lion

55] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

56] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

57] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

58] Beauty draws more than oxen

59] III counsel mars all

60] No garden without its weeds.

61] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

62] Advise none to marry or to go to war

63] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

64] So many countries, so many customs

65] A useful trade is a mine of gold

66] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

67] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

68] Look before you leap

69] Live and let live

70] Never hit a man when he’s down

71] You cannot serve God and Mammon

72] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

73] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

74] Men make houses, women make homes

75] The devil is not as black as he is painted

76] He who comes late must eat what is left

77] Praise is always pleasant

78] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

79] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

80] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

81] Prevention is better than cure

82] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

83] A wicked man is his own hell

84] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

85] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

86] Manners and money make a gentleman

87] Hitch your wagon to a star

88] Adventures are to be adventurous

89] Anger without power is folly

90] Love is blind

91] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

92] Love cannot be compelled

93] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

94] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

95] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

96] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

97] First things first

98] He that has an ill name is half hanged

99] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

100] Example is the greatest of all seducers